If blowback from the Middle East doesn’t kill us, maybe we’ll just go extinct. You can’t kill the food chain and expect to go on eating. Human beings are like a plague of locusts. Good luck to those scientists who want to advise governments how to partially alleviate this problem. Bush doesn’t care about catastrophic losses of human beings, let alone ecosystems, and he definitely doesn’t “do” science.

Earth faces ‘catastrophic loss of species’
Life on earth is facing a major crisis with thousands of species threatened with imminent extinction - a global emergency demanding urgent action. This is the view of 19 of the world’s most eminent biodiversity specialists, who have called on governments to establish a political framework to save the planet.

The planet is losing species faster than at any time since 65 million years ago, when the earth was hit by an enormous asteroid that wiped out thousands of animals and plants, including the dinosaurs. Scientists estimate that the current rate at which species are becoming extinct is between 100 and 1,000 times greater than the normal “background” extinction rate - and say this is all due to human activity…

In a joint declaration, published today in Nature, the scientists say that the earth is on the verge of a biodiversity catastrophe and that only a global political initiative stands a chance of stemming the loss.

UPDATE: Peggy Noonan deserves a Darwin Award. She’s the weakest link.