Man, the Destroyer

Pleistocene Park Could Solve Mystery of Mammoth's Extinction - Yahoo! News. Interesting attempt to restore a 40,000-acre area of Siberia to the Pleistocene era habitat of grasslands with grazing beasties and predators. In fact, the report mentions an attempt to create a wooley mammoth (by someone else) by injecting mammoth DNA into elephants. (Shades of Jurrasic Park!)

The story is interesting until we go off into:
a. waves of ancient human expansion corresspond to elephant population decline. "Man is an ecosystem terminator."
b. Global destruction only accelerated in the holocene when man invented agriculture an started raising cattle.
c. And this is related to global warming due to permafrost carbon sequestration, which, of course will be released as we continue to melt the permafrost.

Let's see. The last ice age ended about the end of the Pliestocene era. The wooly mammoth began to disappear at the same time as the planet began, and is continuing, to warm. All of this now must have been caused by an infestation of humans. Yep, I can see it now, two guys and a cow and there goes the ecosystem.

There is absolutely no doubt that man has changed the ecosystem. Any species changes the ecosystem. Try telling a beaver that he shouldn't build dams because it alters an ecosystem. The idea that, man is an evil in an other pristine ecosystem and has been doing it since the last ice age for the detriment of all is absolutely ludricrous. What do these folks want, the next ice age? Just wait a while and we will have one. Save us from the Gaia-worshipers!