Sad News

<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_on_sc/china_dolphin_extinction" >Rare white dolphin declared as extinct</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.<br />n<br />nThe baiji would be the first large aquatic mammal driven to extinction since hunting and overfishing killed off the Caribbean monk seal in the 1950s.<br />n<br />nFor the baiji, the culprit was a degraded habitat — busy ship traffic, which confounds the sonar the dolphin uses to find food, and overfishing and pollution in the Yangtze waters of eastern China, the expedition said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThis is sad news. I always hate to see an animal go extinct. I'm sure us evil Americans are somehow to blame for this. That insatiable need for consumer goods by Americans caused this so America is to blame. That sounds good, that way China feels better that they aren't to blame.<br />n<br />n<strong>In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. Charles Darwin </strong>