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Originally posted by charlie77
thread title stated the extinction of a species, no facts, a total lie, should that not close the thread?
There has been plenty of environmental destruction accomplished by systems other than capitalism.
Originally posted by Hellhound604
... and then people still can't understand why I hate capitalism???
in my mind capitalism leads to greed. Greed leads to destruction of everything just to become richer and having more status.
capitalism is the root of all evil.
Originally posted by charlie77
thread title stated the extinction of a species, no facts, a total lie, should that not close the thread?
Originally posted by Hellhound604
reply to post by butcherguy
Ok, you the title *might* be slightly exaggerated, but it is no worse that the thousands of doomsday-threads that state that a meteorite, comet, WWIII will strike the earth within the next week, or month .......
reply to post by Human0815
People like you are crazy, this makes me very sad and angry too because i thought we denied Ignorance
Originally posted by Hellhound604
... and then people still can't understand why I hate capitalism???
in my mind capitalism leads to greed. Greed leads to destruction of everything just to become richer and having more status.
capitalism is the root of all evil.
Originally posted by butcherguy
reply to post by Human0815
People like you are crazy, this makes me very sad and angry too because i thought we denied Ignorance
The OP title is a falsehood. If disagreeing with that makes me the crazy one, then call me stark raving mad.
Deny ignorance indeed!
edit on 30-3-2012 by butcherguy because: (no reason given)
EDIT: just to add to the OP don't let him or others get you down, or bog down your thread over childish arguments.
I'm ready to get flamed. I understand the urgency, but just where does it say that " The last Orang-Utans get
killed "? IOW, I find the OP title misleading.
Misleading title...
Originally posted by butcherguy
reply to post by Bixxi3
I didn't report it, I have nothing against orangutans, and I take offense to your and others assertions that I don't care enough about them.
I read your advice about 'picking my battles' twice now. If you want to repeat it a few more times, feel free, but if you believe that I don't care enough about the orangutans, what possible reason could I have to value your advice?
The OP title is false and when I point that out, I am told to 'deny ignorance'?
This place has went downhill since I joined.
Fires raging in an Indonesian swamp forest may have killed a third of the rare Sumatran orangutans living there and all of them may be lost this year, conservationists warned Wednesday.
The Tripa swamp forest in Aceh province is home to the world’s densest population of critically endangered Sumatran orangutans. About 200 still live there, out of a world population estimated at 6,600, the conservationists said.
Cloud-free images from December show only 12,267 hectares (30,311 acres) of Tripa’s original 60,000 hectares (148,260 acres) of forest remains, said Graham Usher of the Foundation of a Sustainable Ecosystem.
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“If there is a prolonged drought and the fire continues ... then orangutans, tigers and sun bears within it will disappear will be exterminated before the end of 2012,” he told a news conference, held by the Coalition to Save Tripa, which includes Greenpeace.
The number of orangutans killed in recent months must be at least approaching 100 or if not even more, the groups estimated, while about 100 others perished between 2009 and 2011 either killed in the conversion process or due to starvation and malnutrition.
And the land grab means the creatures may have only weeks or a few months, before disappearing forever. The fires are the latest move in a sickening and gut-wrenching war waged on orang-utans by palm oil companies over land in northern Indonesia, says the UK's Daily Mail.
Hundreds of the arboreal great apes, recognized by their reddish-brown hair and uniquely expressive faces, may have perished in the fires allegedly started by palm oil companies in the Tripa forest on the coast of Aceh province.
It is one of the largest remaining populations of wild orangutans in the world. More devastating, are the reported claims of palm oil employees forcing fleeing orang-utans back into the burning forest, to their deaths.
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"It is no longer several years away, but just a few months or even weeks before this iconic creature disappears." A few months or weeks. Where is the global outrage? Where is the government of Indonesia?
The latter is best answered by the state of Indonesia's rain forests. Once boasting 160 million hectares in the 1950s, just 48 million hectares remain. A devastating loss for native orang-utans, currently found only in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Yet palm oil is the principle ingredient found in approximately half of all packaged goods sold on grocery store shelves. It is used in cookies, breakfast cereals, cosmetics, soaps and detergents.
Our desire for such products is one of the sole reasons Indonesia's forests are disappearing. And greedy palm oil companies will satisfy this desire, no matter the cost.