AMNH paleontologist Michael Novacek explains the greatest threats facing the Earth’s 100 million-year-old ecosystem…and predicts whether or not the planet will be habitable for humans and other species in the near future. His new book is Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk.
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Comments [4]
Ecuador is gorgeous (except for the few industrial places)
To Mr. Novacek: Please! Evolution by natural selection is not a "theory"- it is a fact- confirmed countless times by scientists, palentologists, archeologists and microbiologists, by experimental and emperical evidence, over the past 150+ years.
If you continue to miscast evolution publicly as a 'theory', you are contributing to the massive ignorance of science rampant in this country, because lay people think of "theory" as "hypothesis", and say "see, it's not really proven!", therefore other 'theories' could be equally true, like 'intelligent design.'
Also, "respecting" people's religion is ludicrous if you are a scientist. It's as if you approved of ignorance and superstition instead of knowledge.
Otherwise, good ideas and good program!
These arguments appear to be more and more prominent ... I have been following the ideas that cooincide with Mr. Novaceck's opinions represented on the following YouTube video ... Something that could be exposed more through your show.
Perhaps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_anaVcCXg
It is estimated that 1 American consumes as much as 8 Chinese. So, America with 300 million people times 8 = 2.4 billion people. thus we put more pressure on the planet than China and India combined...
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