When will we learn...

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Why is man's impact not natural. Well in a way you're right, we are doing what comes naturally to us and that in itself is a fair point. Thus the arguments that have been made against your opinion haven't been that well laid out and frankly a bit too reactionary and handwringing for my liking.

Oliver says that he's sad that we lost the Dodo. As a staunch left-wing environmentalist I can say hand on heart that I'm not that sad about it. Just like I'm not that sad about the loss of the wooly mammoth, the sabre tooth tiger ot the velociraptor (although they would have made ace pets I reckon, imagine walking one of those past a bunch of scally's with irate pit-bulls ha ha). The problem that really comes about is what happens because of the demise of the Dodo. There's this tree you see. Unfortunately for it, this tree can't progenerate unless it's seeds get eaten by a Dodo and shit out. Now that tree is in decline and there's nothing we can do about it. Ho hum, except that there's this insect that fed mostly on the fruit of this tree when not many other things did and when the tree is gone they probably won't last because they won't be able to compete with the animals and insects that feed on other fruits. This will be in our lifetime by the way. And so the domino's begin to fall. You could still say so fucking what as the chances of this domino run fucking you up is next to nil. Lucky us.

But what if a domino is really big. Huge, massive, immense, and you can't even see it. We've got one of those around us, or not as the case may be. Geddit? You know, Bees.

Oops, the Bees are in a spot of bother, and this should bother you, even if you don't like honey. We've fucked about with Bees and their environment so much that they can't take it anymore. Seriously, google colony collapse disorder. If Bees go then suddenly that domino run gets very, very, very close indeed. I'd ask the dogs and the zebras and the dolphins to do something about it, but they can't, no one else can, it has to be us.

You'd think that with all the universities and colleges and research groups and general abundance of the throbbing frontal lobed posse, we'd know how this wee planet of ours works. But we don't, not even the half of it. And this is why biodiversity is important and why we should be a lot more careful about fucking with it. Yes, the man made acceleration of extinction of species is the result of what man does naturally, but unlike a different animal wiping out another species, we do it in the matter of a handful of generations. We do it so fast that the endangered species doesn't have a chance to run away, adapt, fight back or at the very least give the systems of the world a chance to reorganise and get on with things just like it always did.

If you want to know the reasons, then it basically comes down to fucking and eating. Other species just fuck and eat and after that nothing that they do harms the environment. Cod is a brilliant example, even with current obesity rates if we had only caught the cod that we have actually eaten as a species then the cod would never have been in trouble.

So you so fucking what attitude is horribly misguided.

Everyone else, shape up because lamenting grebes and worrying about plastic bags isn't going to cut it. Your arguments need to be tighter, more focused and more to the point.