Extinction Is Just A Scare Word

November 14, 2024
Jack R. Noel

It took another TV show (60 Minutes) to make me realize that a large number of people are preaching fear of extinctions. But look at the actual history of exinctions and you can see that Life has never been extinct. What happens is the process of evolutionary changes.

Polar bears going extinct is the featured fear-generating idea in the 60 Minutes program. They present the melting North Polar Region as the reason for the polar bears going extinct. But polar bears are genetically identical to brown bears. (Ursus maritimus and Ursus arctos).

So this is a bit of misinformation universally promoted by one group of fake (or misinformed) conservationists.

They have been politicized. Politicization equals resort to emotion over scientific facts. Let’s not go down that rabbit hole, there’s nothing worth having down there where all politicians dwell.

The very idea is based on an absurdity- that cold climates must be preserved or conserved for “the good of the planet.” Planet Earth has produced repeated extinction events and over 99% of all species have gone extinct — the Earth keeps going, Earth’s global climate has always been changing. That is a good definition of an extinction machine!

The most probable outcome of the current North and South Pole warming: conditions for other forms of life (including human beings) will drastically improve! But if we are persuaded to conserve the…