John wrote:
>it will never stop to amaze me
>that the most assinine claims often make the most succesfull memes in the
>face of plentifull good scientific evidense to the contrary.
And then, to prove his own point, he repeats one of the great media myths
of our time:
>Humans caused the ecosystem
>collapse at the end of the pleistocene that caused mass extinctions on the N
>American continent.
>
The evidence for this nonesense was not very good when the "Pleistocene
overkill" argument was made by Paul Martin in 1967. The evidence has not
improved since then. Nonetheless the idea has gained "scientific"
legitimacy by endless uncritical repetition in the scientific and lay
press. The popularity of this idea has more to do with a political agenda
to descredit Indian people's right to control their own natural resources,
than it does with real evidence (see the latest diatribe in Newsweek, March
27).
Ronald Nigh
Dana, A.C.
Mexico, D.F. & San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas
Tel. y FAX 525-666-73-66 (DF)
529-678-72-15 (Chiapas)
danamex@mail.internet.com.mx
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