Global warming or not - cultural or not - how short sighted is this?!?!?! A picture is worth a thousand words For all of you who have heard about global warming causing the decline in sea turtles ...  maybe we have discovered why the sea turtle is becoming extinct; and it is not global warming! COSTA  RICA  The Turtle eggs are stolen - harvested if you prefer - to be  sold. Nothing like a picture to explain an extinction.