Very sad news indeed out of China. I just learned of this fresh water dolphin species a couple of years ago and now I learn that they are extinct.
These sort of things make me very, very angry. But what can we in the first world do? Our lifestyle contributes to this as much as the depredations of third world nations like China.
Sure, they'll modernize. But they will have turned their beautiful country into an industrial wasteland by the time they do.
Posted by artandscience at August 8, 2007 08:08 AM