>Oddly, civilization collapsed in the Americas starting   
   >long before the arrivals of Europeans, caused by   
   >environmental catastrophes exasperated by the people.   
   >   
   >Almost nobody discounts a human element in the   
   >extinction of the mammoths and other mega fauna in   
   >the Americas...   
   >   
      
   >Oh, sure, there was the Younger Dryas cooling, the   
   >climate reversal, but we're talking about animals that   
   >seemed to thrive during glacial maximum!  Undoubtedly   
   >they were under pressure already, and the humans simply   
   >threw them over the edge.   
      
   Revealing, didn't read the abstract did you?   
      
   It had nothing to do with the issue you raise.   
   >   
   >The point of course is that you're spewing propaganda.   
   >People who read things like your cite are all the dumber   
   >for having done so, because they are given a warped,   
   >incomplete picture in order to drive them to a politically   
   >desirable answer -- desirable to the people who concocted   
   >the propaganda -- rather than an informational piece.   
      
   Sure, sure the last desperate notion in the face of the science, a   
   political conspiracy, really rather silly, no?   
      
   Happy to entertain credable science to the contrary.   
      
   Booggie man nonsense ain't it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)