"usual suspect" > wrote in message
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> rick etter wrote:
>>>yes, and Rick Etter is promoting this effect by promoting his grass fed
>>>beef
>>>agenda
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>> Nope, especially since my diet, descenteds', and yours are not tied to
>> the sahara.
>>
>> I suggest you and beachbum learn a few real facts about the
>> desertification that has been ongoing for 1000s of years...
>> Again, for the reading impaired, crop production is habitat destruction
>> and environemntal desturction. Using natuarl grass lands as they are
>> and have been is not.
>
> You can take that a step further, Rick. Where's the evidence for mass
> desertification caused by human activity (much less grazing) anyway?
> Consider the following.
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Whoa Usual, don't hit 'em with too much at once! they first have to learn
that cows aren't the problem, the vegans are... :-)



>
> ...The wholesale deforestation of the Eastern United States...
> seems only to have caused the extinction of one species of
> bird. While in Puerto Rico, the island's loss of 99 percent of its
> forest cover caused the loss of 7 out of 60 species, but after the
> deforestation, the number of bird species on the island actually
> increased to 97. The species-area relationship (plotted as a linear
> function in 1859) seems to be a poor model on which to base extinction
> rates.
>
> So the model is suspect and the extrapolation invalid. What about the
> link to global warming? The researchers assume that global warming will
> reduce habitat. Yet this isn't the case. The earth is not shrinking.
> The reduction of one area of habitat does not mean that it is replaced
> by void. Other habitats expand. And so far, all the evidence we have
> points not to desertification or other changes to less hospitable
> climates because of global warming. Instead, the increase of carbon
> dioxide in the atmosphere seems to have led to a 6 percent increase in
> the amount of vegetation on the earth. The Amazon rain forests
> accounted for 42 percent of the growth...
> http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,03797.cfm
>
> The link provided by Beachboob states that the Sahara "started drying up
> 6,000 to 8,000 years ago." Rome was founded in 753 BC. That means the
> Sahara started drying up at least 3000 years before Romulus settled in the
> Seven Hills, not to mention before man made the transition from
> hunter-gatherer to local farmer.
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Yeah, I loved that part. Just think of all those massive cattle ranches in
Africa 8000 years ago.


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