tim flannery at it again, page-58

An exercise for you.
Draw a line on a sheet of paper precisely 3mm long.
Then draw a line alongside that one 50cm long [you'll need another sheet of paper]

The 3mm line represents the time Europeans have inhabited Australia.
The 50cm line represents the time Aboriginal people inhabited Australia [altho some people say it should be 60cm long].

If our line gets to 5mm or even 1cm in length, do you really think your science teacher, and even Ehrlich, really made a dud call?

I don't think, on present form, our [Euro] line will even make one cm!!!