Rare river dolphin 'now extinct'

[Roboevil]

Why should anyone care that some dolphin has died? And why on this planet should we, as a human race, care about it? Or at least why should we take any responsibility for what's happened or what we've done? No one's going to care if the planet's been damaged except us. So basically we're in an endless time loop of caring about something we shouldn't.
Okay, if the planet is going to be destroyed, then I suppose we should protect and conserve it as much as we can until we've developed the technology to move to another planet.

[Virgin Mary]

Why don't the scientists just throw some rocks into some water and make a primordial soup then wait for more animals to evolve, apparently that is what happens.

[Ezzie.]

Why should anyone care that some dolphin has died? And why on this planet should we, as a human race, care about it? Or at least why should we take any responsibility for what's happened or what we've done? No one's going to care if the planet's been damaged except us. So basically we're in an endless time loop of caring about something we shouldn't.
Okay, if the planet is going to be destroyed, then I suppose we should protect and conserve it as much as we can until we've developed the technology to move to another planet.

This planet is our HOME, "just some dolphin" is a whole species that broke off from the original dolphin/whale/porpoise evolutionary family 20million years ago- so they're a very special species to have managed to do that.

Btw did you learn when you were little to take responsibility for your actions? We're not seeming to are we...? So by your logic we shouldn't care if we're destroying the world and destroying the oceans, destroying the rainforests, destroying the fish, the dolphins, the mountain gorillas, the polar bears? Humans aren't the only species on this planet and i think it's damn selfish to say "oh it's only us who'll care" as there's a multitude of animals/insects/fish that are all living.

Also it's sort of idiotic to base your "don't give a ****" attitude on a spacecraft able to transfer millions of people to a planet we haven't found yet?

If this is what the next generation thinks about the world then i'm just going to go hop off a cliff right now :rolleyes:

[velocity]

Some idiotic scienctists are blaming it on the Global Warming rubbish, it'll probably still be alive, just like they have found other animals that were thought to be dead but were infact still alive.

every post you make on the subject of global warming makes you look pathetic. seriously you fail at backing up whatever your statement may be?

global warming is basically (and more obviously) a term for the planet heating up, this happens on a daily basis anyway regardless of c02 levels. its normal. however, the planet does go through phases were an 'ice age' would occur. yes your right, this has happened to the planet on numerous occasions - but the scientists are more concerned about how were making it come around faster.

yes, it happens every so often, however with the technological advances in the world today; has therefore forced us into speeding up this process with remitting more methane and carbon into the atmosphere. in other words, its bound to happen and we cant stop it, we just speed it up.

& if your so sure its a lie, go on. prove it to me.

[FlyingJesus]

"just some dolphin" is a whole species that broke off from the original dolphin/whale/porpoise evolutionary family 20million years ago- so they're a very special species to have managed to do that.

Can't be that good if they're dead.

[hobo]

Can't be that good if they're dead.

LOL!

tbh i'm with roboevil.
who cares?!

[Ezzie.]

you try escaping huge fishing nets, oil polluting your home etc etc?

[Virgin Mary]

Why should anyone care that some dolphin has died? And why on this planet should we, as a human race, care about it? Or at least why should we take any responsibility for what's happened or what we've done? No one's going to care if the planet's been damaged except us. So basically we're in an endless time loop of caring about something we shouldn't.
Okay, if the planet is going to be destroyed, then I suppose we should protect and conserve it as much as we can until we've developed the technology to move to another planet.

But then why care about anything? If humans die, oh well. Why put Madeleine Mcwhatevers face over every newspaper? She isn't our child, she isn't our problem.

[GommeInc]

Global warming has happened millions of times? :rolleyes: Global heating and cooling yes has happened many times, but what you can't seem to get into your head is that we're the ones causing it or speeding it up, the temperature is changing rapidly, ice caps are melting RAPIDLY

I don't think he needs to argue with you, you have already made a stupid comment in the quote I have of you from above. You say we are not causing yet, because global warming and cooling is a global issue, yet you seem to also think we're also causing it, as in, global warming would not be happening. The fact there is no proof as to humans actually speeding it up is another matter. It is actually healtheir for the environment if you drive to the shops instead of walk, because the food you have eaten has probably caused more pollution than the car you are driving in has ever done in a week. If you eat beef, then well, cows are one of the biggest culprits to global warming and if you eat fruit or veg, then that fruit or veg most likely has come from another country e.g. New Zealand.

- polar bears are about 300,000 years old, according to your theory then as so many "global warmings" have occurred, then why are the polar bears still around? They're dieing off very fast due to the melting ice but could you explain how they got past extinction last time when this time round extinction is highly probably if we don't act?

Who is to say that polar bears didn't simply survive global warming the last time? Were you there? No. Did polar bears even exist before or during the last global warming era? The last global effect as far as I am aware was the Ice Age, which a polar bear is built to withstand, unless it is a pretty rubbish species.

Long story short, creatures become extinct, and a polar bear is in the long run nothing to care about. It means nothing to this planet, other than something seen in zoos, post cards, cartoons. I don't see polar bears solving their problems and they're pretty dense creatures anyway, considering one swam 50 miles and decided to attack a group of walrus' only to lose the fight and crawl on a rock and just die. They're hardly smart animals "/

The same goes with the dolphin, sure they're clever in comparison, but they mean nothing in the long run, they solve nothing or do anything for the planet, other than a food source for the species higher up in the food chain or a dumb animal that likes to get caught. That's life, live with it.

No sorry. we can introduce so many fish back into rivers and lakes but that's nowhere enough to satisfy a greedy world like we live in, we'd also have to account for every single species of fish in the ocean that we've wiped out/nearly wiped out etc etc.

So what do you suggest the planet does to save it? Not re-populate the lakes, oceans, sea and rivers? Oh well, at least they tried "/ And also, we cannot bring back extinct animals, so that last comment was utter rubbish and stupidly added for no reason what so ever. I shall try bringing back the Wooly Mammoth now

Plus how can a polar bear be reintroduced to the wild when.. there's no place for it go?

Then keep it in zoos or sanctuaries. You seem to dislike polar bears if you do not wish to help them. Your idea is let them die and blame others, rather than try something to help them.

But then why care about anything? If humans die, oh well. Why put Madeleine Mcwhatevers face over every newspaper? She isn't our child, she isn't our problem.

Isn't it a natural feeling to care about your own species first, than other species?

[Virgin Mary]

Isn't it a natural feeling to care about your own species first, than other species?

Simply, no.