Scientists recommend reintroducing wild species to North America
Posted by Matthew on Thursday August 18, 2005 @09:26AM
from the Think-Global,-Act-Loco dept.
Matthew writes: Scientists have recommended reintroducing types of large vertebrates to North America that became largely extinct during the urban renewals of the 1990s.
“Pimps, hoes, junkies, tweakers, and street punks have become extinct across large portions of North America as their habitats of abandoned hotels, peep show theatres and urban warehouses have been slashed and burned in the 1990’s to make way for high-rise condos, retro lamp posts, tony restaurants, and safe, police patrolled streets.”
“East St. Louis is basically the only remaining habitat for many of these large vertebrate species. Think about it: When was the last time you were mugged? It’s likely that your children might never experience a mugging if we don’t act now.”
Subject:Bums, hobos, etc
There have been some sitings of colonies of them in the subways of Boston as well. Still, mating pairs are extremely rare, or really, unheard of.
Comment by zhoen — August 18, 2005 @ 1:47 pm
Subject:No worries
It's no permanent loss. Convergent evolution will bring back functional equivalents of those species in time as new waves of urban decay and backlashes against safe, wholesome neighborhoods wash over the cities. Convergent evolution is the same mechanism that caused some mammals look like sharks, some to look like birds, and some to look like Elvis.
Comment by daan — August 19, 2005 @ 3:14 pm