USATODAY.com - Everywhere Rep. Rob Simmons goes these days, he lugs a
2-inch-thick binder. Inside are a summary of an investigation into the
Iraq prisoner-abuse scandal and the Army's field manual on
interrogation.
Some Republicans fear Iraq will color campaigns (USATODAY.com)
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Campaigns rev up as soon as lights go down (USATODAY.com)
Campaigns rev up as soon as lights go down (USATODAY.com)09/03/2004 06:49 AM USATODAY.com - The general election campaign roared to life Thursday
night less than an hour after President Bush's acceptance speech here
at the Republican convention. Bush was to head for the crucial state
of Pennsylvania shortly after the balloons dropped in Madison Square
Garden, and Democrat John Kerry held a midnight rally in Ohio.
Some Republicans question what's next for McCain (USATODAY.com)
Some Republicans question what's next for McCain (USATODAY.com)07/29/2004 06:53 AM USATODAY.com - Sen. John McCain is playing an intriguing role in the
2004 campaign that has some Republicans wondering whether he's
planning another run for the presidency.
Campaigns view 4 states as crucial, ad analysis shows (USATODAY.com)
Republicans warn against hasty changes in intel system (USATODAY.com)
Republicans warn against hasty changes in intel system (USATODAY.com)08/12/2004 06:07 AM USATODAY.com - Key House Republicans signaled Wednesday that they want
to slow the rush to enact recommendations from the 9/11 Commission,
lest the changes create more problems than they solve.
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2 Iraq Views, 2 Campaigns
2 Iraq Views, 2 Campaigns09/22/2004 12:34 AM The presidential candidates' opposed images of the war reflect opposed
strategies for the final weeks of the campaign.
Fire managers fear drought's effect (USATODAY.com)
Fire managers fear drought's effect (USATODAY.com)01/19/2004 11:46 AM USATODAY.com - Federal wildfire managers say the Southwest is so dry
this winter that fire season could start sooner and be as bad or worse
than in 2002, when millions of acres burned.
Prisoners lived in fear of guards, freed Iraqi says (USATODAY.com)
Prisoners lived in fear of guards, freed Iraqi says (USATODAY.com)05/10/2004 06:04 AM USATODAY.com - Amid the choking heat of a linoleum-floored holding
cell, an accused carjacker wondered whether he was headed back to the
notorious Abu Ghraib prison or forward to freedom.
Young Republicans Managing Iraq
Young Republicans Managing Iraq05/24/2004 02:33 PM "Brat Pack" - the twentysomething Young Republicans who
are running Iraq's economy. Their resumes all pulled from the
conservative think-tank Heritage Foundation, they came to Iraq with no
experience and found themselves with six-figure salaries managing the
$13 billion budget of the Coalition Provisional Authority. An amazing
article from The Washington Post that reads like the scariest
season of MTV's The Real World ever.
Republicans Criticize Bush 'Mistakes' on Iraq (Reuters)
Republicans Criticize Bush 'Mistakes' on Iraq (Reuters)09/19/2004 01:14 PM Reuters - Leading members of President Bush's
Republican Party on Sunday criticized mistakes and
"incompetence" in his Iraq policy and called for an urgent
ground offensive to retake insurgent sanctuaries.
Republicans Salute Bush, McCain Defends Iraq War (Reuters)
Republicans Salute Bush, McCain Defends Iraq War (Reuters)08/30/2004 09:21 PM Reuters - Led by Sen. John McCain, Republicans
kicked off their convention on Monday with an impassioned
tribute to President Bush's wartime leadership and his
unwavering response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Politicians, According To Documents That Have Surfaced In Baghdad ..
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In his book
Extinction: Evolution & The End
of Man,
palaeontologist Michael Boulter reviews past cycles of evolution and
extinction on Earth, and sudden cataclysmic extinctions (caused by
meteorites or massive volcanic eruptions). He predicts with scientific
detachment the probability that the next great extinction has already
begun, and that man is very unlikely to survive it. We are simply not
endowed with the right attributes and physical adaptability. The next
flourishing of life on Earth, says Boulter, will be dominated by
creatures of the air -- the birds and insects. It was by taking to the
air and evolving into birds, after all, that the dinosaurs survived
the
last great extinction. Après
nous les dragons.
This winter I've taken up a new hobby, birdwatching, and as with all
my
new hobbies I start with a flurry of research. The incredible
sophistication of the design of birds -- aerodynamically,
thermodynamically, and socially -- is endlessly fascinating to me.
Birds have a body temperature of about 108°F, although some birds
like
chickadees are able to lower their body temperature by up to 20°F
at
night in winter, a process called shallow hibernation that helps
reduce
body heat loss. Unless injured, birds rarely freeze to death, even in
-50°F temperatures. Their feathers have extraordinary thermal
qualities, and can be fluffed out to increase these qualities further.
Their usually easy and carefree 'work' schedule stretches out to an
exceptional four hours per day in very cold weather, as they bulk up
on
fats and proteins, which they work off at night by shivering,
generating enough extra heat energy to sustain their body temperature.
There's no indication that this shivering is uncomfortable to them as
it is to us (perhaps it's more akin to the way we shiver in the throes
of passion). They don't go to particularly great pains to find the
warmest possible shelter on cold nights, preferring, like human
homeless people, the closest unoccupied place out of the wind over
much
warmer, more crowded, places further afield. Their evolved body
chemistry also allows them to fly at heights with thin oxygen despite
their rapid respiration rate -- they have auxiliary air sacs beside
their lungs, that also allow diving birds to stay underwater for 15
minutes at a time. And their metabolism allows them to fly thousands
of
miles, for three days at a time, without stopping or landing, during
migrations that can take them from one end of the earth to the other,
at speeds up to 100MPH.
I especially like watching the chickadees and sparrows, which
scientists believe are, in this part of the world anyway, the only
species that are somewhat dependent on the welfare of bird lovers for
sufficient food during the winter. The chickadees announce my arrival
at the bird feeder with a unique and elongated trill, repeated among
the group that hang around the massive old evergreens beside our
house.
At first I thought this was a warning -- human in area message, but they've become
so tame in my presence now that I know this message is seed guy's here -- lunch is on.
They
soar from the evergreens to the sunflower seed feeder with three
graceful and elegant dips, making perfect stops on the small plastic
rods below the feeder openings, grab a seed and take off, the next one
arriving just as it leaves. The sparrows tend to arrive later, and are
more sociable, dining at the mixed seed feeder a dozen at a time. Just
before sundown they're at their most voracious, bulking up to fend off
the coming night's cold. To the shyer juncos, cardinals, finches,
nuthatches, creepers and wrens, this seed is less critical fare, and
like the occasional jays and crows, chipmunks and squirrels, they're
content to eat the seed that's been blown, kicked or dropped from the
feeder by the chickadees and sparrows.
The most remarkable thing about birds, of course, is their
aerodynamics. Birds have between 1000 (hummingbirds, whose
aerodynamics
would need a completely separate article) and 25,000 feathers (swans),
of at least six different types. These feathers, which evolved fairly
rapidly and dramatically from reptilian scales, are almost pure
protein, almost weightless, and staggeringly complex and intricate in
their construction and variety. The dominant contour feathers
themselves come in multiple varieties. They're used for flight, and
include the very different wing and tail flight feathers, plus some
feathers that biologists think
are for protection, body aerodynamic shaping, and colour. The colours
of birds, by the way, are a reflection of what the birds eat -- the
pigment comes from their food -- and hence a message to migrating
birds
of what foods are locally available. But the colour of birds is even
more complex than that: Part of the colour of birds is due to
microstructure of the feathers themselves, and is a result of
refraction of light rather than pigment on parts of the body that
can't
aerodynamically sustain the weight of pigment (most birds' thousands
of
feathers are so light they would not, all together, register on the
most sensitive household scales).
The down feathers are for insulation, of course, and of completely
different construction from the contour feathers. The other four types
of feathers -- semi-plume, filoplume, bristle and powder -- are
utterly
different again. No one really knows what they're for, though educated
guesses include environmental sensing, protection, cleaning, and sound
muffling (in the presence of insect prey). The feathers can be
manipulated in all directions in an almost unlimited number of
sophisticated ways. The elegant pinpoint stops on the feeder rods are
made possible by a simultaneous angling of the wings, a manipulation
of
the wing tips, and a turning down and fluffing out of the tail
feathers
to increase drag. No human technology has even come close to the
precision and intricacy of these manoeuvres. Like our fingernails, the
closest human evolutionary cousins of feathers, birds' feathers grow
from a root to full growth, and then the cells that permitted the
growth, their work done, die. Every feather is replaced by a new one
on
average every nine months. The musculature of birds is focused in the
wings. Fused, incredibly strong bones replace muscles in other places
to minimize weight. Birds have three eyelids to protect their vital
eyesight, which is up to eight times more acute than ours, much better
able to distinguish colours and detect movement. Birds can see with
startling, crystal clarity things we see only as a blur.
When you study nature in this way, without judgement or condescension,
a way that has only been done in our culture for a few generations, it
changes your whole worldview. When I was young, growing up in a
prairie
Canadian city, I was fascinated and terrified by nature. My favourite
animals were wolverines -- I learned stories about how they would
attack much larger animals. The sheer otherness of nature, its difference
from the world 'people' lived in, was the stuff of boys' dreams. I
could be Davy Crockett, staring down bears and wearing 'coonskin caps.
If I could overcome my aversion to beetles and spiders and snakes, I
could learn wilderness 'survival' skills, how to stay alive despite
overwhelming hardship, deprivation, scarcity, cruelty.
Where do we get this crap? How do we get this strange, warped sense of
what the world is like beyond the fragile, flimsy, artificial walls of
'civilization'? Why do we so
misunderstand, romanticize, fear -- nature?
Today, I'm fortunate enough to live adjacent to wilderness. Half of
our
four-acre property is pond and swamp and forest and cannot be touched,
and I wouldn't have it any other way. Right behind us is a six hundred
acre tract of wilderness. I've wandered into the forest and seen
magnificent grey wolves no more than 20 feet away. I've seen foxes and
coyotes and stags flee at my approach. I've been stared down by a
100-pound, three foot long beaver. Snakes and strange, primeval
insects
share the patio as I sip my morning tea. Even before I studied the
birds, I knew they didn't live their lives in misery, constant terror,
near-starvation. My childhood pity for the birds huddled against the
cold has long ago given way to a sense of awe and envy.
I did some research to try to understand the prevalence of the myths
that make us so misunderstand and even, if we were to be honest with
ourselves, fear nature. There seem to be three theories, all of which
relate to our tendency to fear what we do not know and understand:
The physical theory, espoused by anthropologists and
environmentalists,
is that we fear nature because we've been physically separated from it
for so long that we've become ignorant of its beauty and grace and
peacefulness, and prone to believe the sensationalist nonsense of
nature being cruel and savage. The moral/psychological theory. espoused
by students of religion and philosophy, is that the salvationist,
acquisitive culture, the culture that has become ubiquitous on Earth
since the invention of agriculture, urbanization and the spread of
western religions, teaches us relentlessly that we are morally and
spiritually separate from
'the rest of nature', and that our relationship with nature is
adversarial and competitive, and as a result we have become
psychologically separate from, and hence unable to understand, what
nature is really like. The third, scientific/intellectual
theory, is that our brain's evolved size, complexity and capacity for
abstraction has so expanded our imaginations that, with the lack of
direct empirical contact with nature, we imagine nature as huge and
ominous and mystical and terrifying and full of danger.
As I was putting together the chart of the three theories above, I
began to realize that they're interrelated and inseparable and they
reinforce each other, and it's the insidious combination of our
physical ignorance of nature (for most of us anyway), the relentless
psychological indoctrination we receive about nature, and our vivid
imagination about things that we don't understand, that together
produce the total fiction of nature as dangerous, difficult, tragic
and
fearsome. The problem is that the underlying causes that have led to
these fictions -- overpopulation and environmental stress, our
acquisitive/salvationist culture, and the evolution of our brain and
imagination -- are themselves connected and self-reinforcing. So the
only way we're going to be able to achieve a reconciliation, a
re-connection, between man and nature, on any kind of universal scale,
is to deal with all three causes at once.
I think the way to do that, aside from having to do a lot of education
in a very short period of time, is to stop moralizing and
rationalizing
about nature (in either adversarial and 'noble savage' romantic ways)
and start to think about nature in A Third Way.
Religion and philosophy are rooted in, and hopelessly tainted by, our
cultural anthropocentrism. To try to understand nature from the
perspective of anthropocentric morality is as futile as trying to
understand the motion of the stars using ancient Earth-centric
Aristotelian astronomy. To try to describe nature from the perspective
of anthropocentric rationality is like trying to teach someone your
language when you have no shared vocabulary or grammar to build
on.
The Third Way is to understand nature instinctively,
intuitively. Trusting your instincts makes things that are
inconceivable morally or rationally, as easy for humans to conceive
of,
and understand, as they are to birds. Scientists have been trying
rationally, scientifically, to understand how birds fly, and the
staggering complexity of birds' aerodynamic apparatus since Da Vinci,
and have hardly made a scratch in that understanding. Meanwhile,
instinctively, birds know what they have to do to fly. It is, to them,
staggeringly simple, obvious. The instinct is hard wired in them.
Moralists and philosophers have been trying to construct codes of
conduct and behaviour to explain and modify human behaviour since
before the invention of language, and still every century we kill and
damage each other in greater degrees and greater numbers, behave in
successively more barbaric and less 'civilized' ways. Meanwhile all
the
other life species on Earth, who have neither capacity nor need for
moral codes, conduct themselves in amazingly collaborative and
synergistic ways that optimize the quality and quality of life of
every
creature on the planet -- save perhaps man. The instinct to do so, to
know
what to do and how to do it, is part of them. They don't have to learn
it. There is nothing romantic or mystical about this. It is just
listening to the simple, inherent language of evolution.
This same instinct is hard wired in us. It was for three million
years,
long before we developed moral codes and rational skills. We've simply
forgotten
how to listen to these instincts, how to trust them. But despite the
efforts of moralists and scientists to sublimate our instincts
for
30,000 years, to replace them with something uniquely human, it's very
hard to bury three million years of knowledge coded in our DNA. Just
learn enough to set aside the fear-mongering crap the moralists want
you to believe, and enough to suspend your stupefying belief in our
technology's superiority over the elegant natural science of a
hummingbird's wing, and take a walk away from the trappings of
civilization, the universe of human myth. Walk in a place relatively untouched by man's heavy hand and
just listen. You'll remember your instincts as soon as your
head clears.
If you were to ask me if, at age 52, I would be willing to give up the
rest of my life for the chance to experience five years as a songbird
(an average lifespan for such birds -- though crows and geese live
15-20 years and parrots 80 or more), to give up the security and
intelligence and property I have accumulated and live free of the
demands of human life, spending an hour or four each day finding food,
and the rest of the day simply living, just being alive as part of
this
wonderful, magical world, to be completely free of any demands or
restrictions, to be able to fly, I would say: In a heartbeat.
Travel is still far away for many in Iraq (USATODAY.com)
Travel is still far away for many in Iraq (USATODAY.com)09/17/2004 06:56 AM USATODAY.com - Luma Anwar and her mother arrived at the passport
office at 3 a.m. one day last week.It wasn't early enough. After 12
hours in line, they were nowhere near the front.It was their third
attempt to get a passport for Anwar, who plans to drive to Amman
before flying to Detroit to meet her husband-to-be. The passport will
have to wait for another day."If I could just get my passport, I'd be
the happiest woman in the universe," says Anwar, 24.The right to
travel was one of the most enticing of the freedoms Iraqis looked
forward to after the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. It has also
been one of the most agonizingly elusive.Under Saddam, getting
permission to travel could take up to a year and was mostly reserved
for privileged members of the government or their families.Since they
became available June 22, about 500,000 passports have been issued.
But harried clerks can't keep up with demand and every day there are
long lines and frustrated people.Baghdad's gleaming international
airport terminal has been renovated by U.S. taxpayers at a cost of
nearly $39 million dollars. But more than a year after the fall of
Saddam, only a couple charter flights use the airport. And even the
civilian planes use evasive tactics to avoid surface-to-air missiles
when landing.Iraqi Airways had planned to resume flying this Saturday
from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan and Damascus, Syria. Saturday's flight
would have been the nation's first international commercial flight
since 1990, when U.N. sanctions were imposed after Iraq invaded
Kuwait.Alas, the airline remains grounded, unable to secure airspace
permission from the U.S.-led coalition."All of our efforts to fly out
of Iraq have been futile," says Isaac Esho, the airline's deputy
director general.
Foreign detainees are few in Iraq (USATODAY.com)
Foreign detainees are few in Iraq (USATODAY.com)07/06/2004 06:50 AM USATODAY.com - Suspected foreign fighters account for less than 2% of
the 5,700 captives being held as security threats in Iraq, a strong
indication that Iraqis are largely responsible for the stubborn
insurgency.
Reports pan Iraq reconstruction (USATODAY.com)
Reports pan Iraq reconstruction (USATODAY.com)09/09/2004 09:08 AM USATODAY.com - Detailed new reports by two independent groups offer a
devastating portrait of the 16-month-old U.S. reconstruction effort in
Iraq, blaming ongoing violence there in large part on misplaced U.S.
priorities, bureaucratic bungling and poor planning.
Kerry says he would send more troops to Iraq if necessary (USATODAY.com)
Senators slam administration on Iraq (USATODAY.com)
Senators slam administration on Iraq (USATODAY.com)09/16/2004 07:34 AM USATODAY.com - Senators from both parties accused the Bush
administration Wednesday of incompetence in its efforts to rebuild
Iraq and said the United States could lose the war unless it improves
security and gets more money into the Iraqi economy.
U.S. hostage escapes captors in Iraq (USATODAY.com)
U.S. hostage escapes captors in Iraq (USATODAY.com)05/03/2004 06:47 AM USATODAY.com - Thomas Hamill, the Mississippi truck driver captured by
insurgents three weeks ago, is being treated for an infected gunshot
wound after he escaped from his captors Sunday and ran toward a convoy
of U.S. troops south of Tikrit.
Iraq report focuses blame on CIA (USATODAY.com)
Iraq report focuses blame on CIA (USATODAY.com)07/12/2004 07:33 AM USATODAY.com - Two days before Christmas 2002, with war in Iraq less
than three months away, an intelligence analyst at the Department of
Energy e-mailed a colleague to complain that the CIA was squelching
dissent from those who doubted that Iraq was trying to import uranium
and other nuclear weapons components.
Bush: Progress in Iraq is mixed (USATODAY.com)12/22/2004 01:21 AM USATODAY.com - President Bush delivered a sober assessment of the war
in Iraq on Monday, acknowledging that recent bomb attacks were proving
to be "effective propaganda tools." At the same time, a USA
TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll found that a majority of Americans disapprove of
the way the war is being run and say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
should resign.
Kerry outlines plan to fix Iraq (USATODAY.com)
Kerry outlines plan to fix Iraq (USATODAY.com)09/21/2004 06:43 AM USATODAY.com - Democrat John Kerry went on the offense Monday with a
broad, scathing critique of President Bush's decisions on Iraq. He
accused Bush of "colossal failures of judgment" and contended he "will
repeat the same reckless mistakes" elsewhere if he is re-elected.
Rumsfeld apologizes for Iraq abuses (USATODAY.com)
Rumsfeld apologizes for Iraq abuses (USATODAY.com)05/07/2004 03:09 PM USATODAY.com - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld apologized Friday for
abuses of Iraqi prisoners in U.S. custody, telling two congressional
panels that he accepted responsibility for the growing controversy.
Bush to talk up his plans for Iraq (USATODAY.com)
Bush to talk up his plans for Iraq (USATODAY.com)05/24/2004 07:52 AM USATODAY.com - An embattled President Bush, his support imperiled at
home and abroad, launches a five-week campaign Monday intended to
reassure Americans that he has an effective plan for Iraq and persuade
foreign leaders to do more to help it succeed.
Scores of foreigners abducted in Iraq (USATODAY.com)
Scores of foreigners abducted in Iraq (USATODAY.com)07/27/2004 05:47 AM USATODAY.com - Militants in Iraq have kidnapped nearly 70 people in
their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper
reconstruction. The status of some of the foreigners taken captive:
Gap widens between candidates on Iraq, parks (USATODAY.com)
Gap widens between candidates on Iraq, parks (USATODAY.com)08/10/2004 07:11 AM USATODAY.com - John Kerry hiked Monday on the Grand Canyon's
breathtaking South Rim, and then charged President Bush with
short-changing the national park system. But Kerry's intended focus on
the natural environment was overshadowed by a barbed exchange with
Bush over Iraq.
Iraq arms hunt in doubt in '02 (USATODAY.com)
Iraq arms hunt in doubt in '02 (USATODAY.com)02/13/2004 07:16 AM USATODAY.com - A classified U.S. intelligence study done three months
before the war in Iraq predicted a problem now confronting the Bush
administration: the possibility that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
might never be found.
Bush wants NATO relief in Iraq (USATODAY.com)
Bush wants NATO relief in Iraq (USATODAY.com)06/10/2004 06:23 AM USATODAY.com - President Bush, eager to reduce U.S. responsibilities
in Iraq, said Wednesday that he hopes NATO will take a more active
role there.
Top commanders in Iraq allowed dogs to be used (USATODAY.com)
Top commanders in Iraq allowed dogs to be used (USATODAY.com)07/19/2004 06:21 AM USATODAY.com - U.S. military commanders in Iraq authorized the use of
dogs for interrogations at the Abu Ghraib prison five months after
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld barred the practice for terrorism
suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to classified military
documents.
Geek Conferences: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Geek Conferences: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself02/16/2004 05:37 AM Is the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference elitist? This
question seems to be stirring up the blogosphere, and causing lots of
good people who I read and like to throw verbal bricks at each other.
I thought that as someone who is clearly not a member of the blogging
elite, I might have a useful perspective to offer. Is the conference
elitist? Of course it is - and no, it isn't. Both are true. It is
elitist in the sense that it requires interest, knowing that the
conference is going to happen, and being able to come up with the
large amounts of time and money to attend. This rules out a very large
proportion of the world. However, if someone is motivated and willing
to rough it, it is possible to attend the conference for a lot less
money than the standard cost of the conference and swanky hotel. In my
case I found cheap late night flights on Southwest, stayed in a very
cheap hostel (though not as cheap as the hacker loft crash pad), and
got a free pass to the conference by writing and asking Tim O'Reilly
nicely for one -- I saw other free passes being given away via the
Wiki. So the money doesn't have to be the huge barrier it seems like
at first, but attending does require a bit of luck and or chutzpah,
geographical proximity, and being willing to stay in considerably less
than stellar accommodations. The conference can also feel elitist
because so many of the people who attend know each other. Many of them
have long-standing professional, technical and personal ties (and
ongoing feuds). If, like me, you are somewhat reticent by nature, you
don't have ties to lots of people at the conference, and you don't
have any particular product or idea to promote, it can be easy to feel
intimidated or like an outsider surrounded by insiders. For instance,
one day of the conference I ran into Dan Gillmor, Doc Searls, Micah
Sifry and Scott Rosenberg at a cafe next door to the conference. I
read 3 out of 4 of them regularly, I respect their work a lot, and I
would have enjoyed sitting at their lunch table and listening to them
talk. Did they invite me to join them for lunch? Of course not, no
more than I would invite a random stranger I saw...
On Iraq, 'the president broke his word' (USATODAY.com)
On Iraq, 'the president broke his word' (USATODAY.com)07/23/2004 06:14 AM USATODAY.com - On the eve of his convention, Democratic presidential
candidate John Kerry said he's confident he can convince voters he is
a strong leader - stronger than President Bush. He said he does not
regret his vote authorizing the Iraq invasion but does regret that
Bush broke his promise to pursue war as a last resort. Grok Description matches for Some Republicans fear Iraq will color campaigns (USATODAY.com) GrokA matches for Some Republicans fear Iraq will color campaigns (USATODAY.com)
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In his book
Extinction: Evolution & The End
of Man,
palaeontologist Michael Boulter reviews past cycles of evolution and
extinction on Earth, and sudden cataclysmic extinctions (caused by
meteorites or massive volcanic eruptions). He predicts with scientific
detachment the probability that the next great extinction has already
begun, and that man is very unlikely to survive it. We are simply not
endowed with the right attributes and physical adaptability. The next
flourishing of life on Earth, says Boulter, will be dominated by
creatures of the air -- the birds and insects. It was by taking to the
air and evolving into birds, after all, that the dinosaurs survived
the
last great extinction. Après
nous les dragons.
