Perhaps "biodiversity" applies to our faithful diversity pooches...
It sure doesn't apply to the umpires in the World Series...
We're not sure what "biodiversity" means but I'm sure it has some application to this email post that I received talking about the umpires at the World Series:
"At the beginning of the World Series broadcast on Fox 4 tonight, they introduced and showed pictures of the 6 officials. They were all older Caucasian males. Where is the diversity? A large percentage of the players fit one minority category or another, but not the officials. Is it possible that Major League baseball is primarily in performance, not skin color or ethnic background?"
4 comments:
Simple, Major League Baseball goes with the best available regardless of race, color, creed, sexual orientation etc, etc. At least they have through this year, though one could argue that point after the blown call Saturday night. If a spotlight gets put on MLB's selection process, you can bet that approacch will change in a big hurry and quality will, most likely, be sacrificed in the interest of .....something!
The term biological diversity was used first by wildlife scientist and conservationist Raymond F. Dasmann in the 1968 lay book A Different Kind of Country advocating conservation. The term was widely adopted only after more than a decade, when in the 1980s it came into common usage in science and environmental policy. Thomas Lovejoy, in the foreword to the book Conservation Biology, introduced the term to the scientific community. Until then the term "natural diversity" was common, introduced by The Science Division of The Nature Conservancy in an important 1975 study, "The Preservation of Natural Diversity." By the early 1980s TNC's Science program and its head, Robert E. Jenkins, Lovejoy and other leading conservation scientists at the time in America advocated the use of "biological diversity".
The term's contracted form biodiversity may have been coined by W.G. Rosen in 1985 while planning the 1986 National Forum on Biological Diversity organized by the National Research Council (NRC). It first appeared in a publication in 1988 when entomologist E. O. Wilson used it as the title of the proceedings of that forum.
Since this period the term has achieved widespread use among biologists, environmentalists, political leaders, and concerned citizens.
A similar term in the United States is "natural heritage." It predates the others and is more accepted by the wider audience interested in conservation. Broader than biodiversity, it includes geology and landforms (geodiversity).
So obviously Big Banger is a bio-diverse fellow whose intelligence is obvious...but then
WHO REALLY CARES?
More like an encyclopedia quoter...aka...plagerizer
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