that's an interesting an provocative question. As far a relatively quick
disaster that has had lasting consequences I would say the Gulf War when all
of those oil fields were set on fire on the north side of the Persian Gulf.
I could be wrong, but I think that caused the extinction of the Socotra
Cormorant.
As far a comments about extending peoples lives being a bad thing in that it
is causing a lot of environmental damage, I'm not sure I entirely buy into
that (I won't even attempt to address the morality of the issue). It seems
to me that as people have been living longer and more affluent and
fulfilling lives, they've also tended to reproduce less. I think that parts
of Europe actually have a declining populations now and that the
reproductive rates have been falling in the United States too.
Mark Otnes
Fargo ND
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Martin Moore" <archimed_at_netdoor.com>
To: <nfc_at_actwin.com>; <nanfa at aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:24 PM
Subject: NANFA-- Worst environmental disasters?
> I have been reading lately about what has been going on with the
> Aral Sea, and it got me to wondering. What do you think the
> greatest man-made environmental disaster has been in recent
> history? I am looking for a discrete event as opposed to, say,
> "global extinction".
>
>
> Prost,
>
> Martin
> Jackson, MS
> -----------
> I remember how my great-uncle Jerry would sit on the porch
> and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out
> of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first
> one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And
> no paint, because he had whittled off the paint.
>
>
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