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granholm@direct.ca (Robert Granholm) wrote:
 
> It may be difficult to be overly anxious about frogs, but these are early warning
>  signs for problems that have yet, in the main, been taken seriously enough to 
> propel policy makers and industrial leaders into serious action. When is 
> enough evidence enough?

++ this is one of the THE basic questions. The usual answer seems to be...
something along the lines of....

when the groups with power (fame-skills, organized and/or financial)
can no longer avoid paying the bill (or forcing the taxpayers to) and 
there is usually an accompanying crisis 
with attached human pain and suffering
as reported by the media that tips public reaction
over some type of edge . . . 

AND, more basically:
 enough evidence is enough, 
when enough people work to make it so.

The other problem is one of scale and time...
These types of problems are most likely to show up
in future generations as the days, months and years
of accumulated differences start to show up as 
selecting and de-selecting different forms and
features of life (as we have known it).

The early losers, amphibians, are just another
of the many signs of life forms not being able to adapt-
but what makes us think "we" can adapt and then there
are all the moral issues and the bottom line is -

I think indicators like this are very important -
if we ever want to act on trying to prevent further
atmospheric and biospheric pollutants.
and de-selecting different forms of life.