I'm still alive

Even though I haven't posted anything in about a million years. Here's something to mull over. Humans are causing a MASS EXTINCTION! That, by the way, is bad. This would be the sixth... The last ones have destroyed 75% of animal life on earth. Mhm. That's right 75%! I'm not the most positive person around, but that strikes me as PRETTY DARN BAD. (I'm for some reason loving the capitals today).

If we kill of 75% of animal species, where does that leave us.

I'm going to meander off hear about a book called The Lost World, by Michael Crichton. In this book there is a scientist (well actually a chaos theorist, but I digress) who believes that humans are the next great extinction, and that after doing our best to scrub the earth clean of all living things, we will die out, and the earth will recover, leaving a few life forms to continue evolving. Now, I know this sound a little Doomsday-ish. This book was written 16 years ago. Wow. We're such a predictable species, aren't we? Kinda scary, how, what probably would have sounded crazy when the book was published is actually HAPPENING now.

apoc·a·lypse
Definition of APOCALYPSE1
a : one of the Jewish and Christian writings of 200 b.c. toa.d. 150 marked by pseudonymity, symbolic imagery, and the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdomb capitalized : revelation 32
a : something viewed as a prophetic revelationb : armageddon3
: a great disaster <an environmental apocalypse>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apocalypse 

I don't know about you but I'd call a 75% extinction "an environmental disaster" wouldn't you?

Even if the article is totally inaccurate, there's no smoothing over the fact that humans are destroying significant amounts of our world.

So what are we going to do about it?