Eric Sanderson pictures New York's natural history

wow

fantastic work.

Well done, a true visualization of the network of nature.

It was a brilliant presentation until he started talking about green energy crap.

PS (hughtub)
Your ideas about evolution seem to totally dimiss the myriad environmental factors that determine survival. You cannot plan for unforeseen environmental changes (such as bacteria) with "non-random" mating. You're just as likely to breed offspring that are vulnerable.
Random breeding is much more likely to enable a species to continue because of the variety it produces.

hughtub,
1. Japan as a homogeneous society is a stereotype that is not true, especially in the urban areas.
2. Just because there are more minorities in prison doesn't mean they commit more crimes. The drug war is a "great" social engineering tool. Is it it a coincidence that it was "declared" by Nixon just as minorities gained civil rights?
3. Intellectual ability and potential are two different things. DC dollars haven't help the urban drop out rate. Shitty schools don't improve SAT scores.

Not so. Suburban sprawl is the most wasteful of human configurations. Cities are far more energy efficient than suburbs or exurbs but suburbs are more the culprit because of their large populations. Large populations of people heating individual homes for a only a few people & traveling everywhere using individual transportation leave a much bigger carbon footprint. They don't have to live in mega-cities but small, more dense communities of people would save much more energy.

You have just widened the debate a good deal but do make a valid point about energy wastage. There is much that we could debate on but this forum is poorly suited for the ranging discussion that would ensue. Large conurbations and rural exodii raise a slew of other problems and socio-economic issues
As for the carbon footprint debate, I believe that this is a political mirage. The very real environmental degradation is sadly overlooked at the expense of this fictional bogeyman.

Where I live, all new high risers have to be green buildings. The entire skins of these buildings are solar collectors, they treat their own waste & reuse water for cooling & heating. These buildings are giant solar collectors which put all unused energy collected back into the electric grid. Using a panoply of renewable energy sources, wind, solar, algae, hydrogen fuels could virtually eliminate the impact of the internal combustion engine & greatly lessen the need for polluting energy plants

I do not doubt for a second that technical improvements can and must be made.
I am asserting that the root problem is our current political structure with it's insustainable economic model, demanding constant growth in order to appear healthy. Inabilty of societies to self-regulate population growth due to poverty and arcane superstitions is another problem.
Improved technical solutions alone are simply plasters on a gaping, infected wound.