[mburbank]

Once is Enough, that was me who posted the biodiversity argument you're thinking of. You were deliberately being a jerk last time it came up becuase in some way you think it's funny as opposed to just making the times you actually believe something less credible. I told you then it isn't about tigers it's about single strains of wheat or rice or potatoes, or giant ecosystems. It's never about top predators, which is why if the Human Race vanished from the face of the arth tomorrow it would make almost no dfifference to the biosphere, but if most of te species of beetle out there were gone, it would make the possibiulity of complete ecologic collapse much greater.

I know you already understand this. Stop being a dufus, or learn to be funny when you are.