When will we learn...

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.

So, basically, you're saying that you're sad that we lost the dodo, right? ;P