Friday, December 09, 2005
Awww
Well, today is the last Daily Cal. I guess I'll have to rely on things like the SF government throwing its cops to the dogs for entertainment.
Jackie Patt knows that the way to fight a Republican Congress is to try to convince folk at Berkeley to convince their representatives to fight a Republican Congress. Which is actually a rather good idea, since before Patt's done anything, victory is already achieved.
Still not convinced that the bill is a bad idea? Here's why we cannot scrap the act: The ESA is the most important piece of legislation regarding wildlife conservation. Of the more than 1200 species listed, only nine have gone extinct. A UC Davis professor estimated 190 species would have gone extinct if the act were not in existence or lacked its regulatory strength.
Note that the professor isn't named, and the study isn't identified, so we can't go look up what was used as a "control Earth" to get that number.
The world is experiencing a mass extinction rate 200 times greater than all past extinctions due to human impact.
"All past extinctions" is a number of extinctions. An "extinction rate" is a rate of extinctions. Comparing the two is like saying "My car is going 50 times faster than the distance between my house and the street!" Yeah, somehow I don't find Jackie's understanding of science convincing.
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