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[__ Science __ ] Should We Abandon Some Species to Extinction?

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Should We Abandon Some Species to Extinction?

Short answer... Yes... It probably sounds heartless but ive given this quite a bit of thought before.
It wasn't easy for me to get to this position. I'll try explain how and why.

"We"... Is that me? One person can't possibly account for an extinction of a species...
Perhaps you mean governments...

"Abandon"... Im a bit confused by what u mean here...
I'll assume that u mean governments abandoning conservation programs for some species...

Every year species go extinct and other species are found that were previously unsubstantiated by science.
95% of our fossil record are of extinct species and none of it occurred because of man abandoning them. The world is always changing, climate has always changed, environments have always changed to suit and in turn the plants and animals change...

So with so many animals on the endangered list how do we decide which animals to try and save and which ones to perish. Why do we care so much about whales with so many other threatened species? Why does Japan have to sacrifice their whale eating traditions but the eskimos don't? Just because some bureaucrats decided to save the whale. To the Japanese they see such westerners as being hypocrites as they eat threatened species all the time. Atlantic cod and Atlantic blue fin...

My point is who decides which animals to save and which to perish?

Then u have some methods which have turned out to be disasters... Australia has a history of terrible decisions...
When they started farming sugar cane their crops kept getting ravished by cane beetles... So they introduced the cane toad... Pfft... Lets just say it turned the eco system upside down and gave it a real shake...

Europeans brought heaps of animals to Australia that disturbed its eco system, NZ as well, they had no mammals or reptiles. One animal that got out of control were rabbits. They tried introducing foxes which just disturbed the eco system further. Then they released the Myxomatosis virus into the rabbit community but it didn't work and now their mostly immune, its just like the common cold to them now...

Is it our responsibility now to maintain the current eco system and weather? Since when?
What length do we go to? Who are the humans making these decisions?

One popular idea in Australia is culling. Birds, seals, wild brumby horses, kangaroos and even koalas...
I'll quote this article from last year Koalas and other native animals need to be killed

"A parliamentary inquiry has been told koalas and other native animals should be culled or increasing numbers could risk Australian biodiversity.
The Natural Resources Committee (NRC) yesterday told a South Australian Parliamentary Inquiry that koalas, corellas, fur seals and other native animals were reaching unmanageable levels across the state and needed to be culled, poisoned and euthanised"


I can understand farmers using tactics to protect their crops but killing animals just because some bureaucrats thinks there are too many... They are not God deciding what lives and what perishes... God doesn't hold us responsible for the extinction of animals... However deciding to cull species to suit our personal preferences and agendas is immoral... Its not for humans to decide... Yes we have made mistakes by introducing different species to different places but trying to fix it only makes matters worse...

What are the two most important commands... Love God and love each other... Well...
The treasurer has an annual budget where he has to share around... How much should go to conservation?
That money could be used to improved education, health, employment, housing...
There are so many souls that are struggling... Souls that society really is abandoning...

Then in the conservation department... How do we choose which animals live or die? How do we apply it?
According to who? To what standard? What are the consequences? I could go on on...
Thats a lot of money that could be redirected to really change peoples lives...

Don't get me wrong im not anti-animal... No way... I love animals, especially birds... Im not saying to be reckless...
We are becoming wiser with our waste which is good... Plastic is a big problem, especially in our oceans...

With the explosion of humans in the last century man has taken a lot of the animals old habitat...
You can't condemn man for that... What next then... Population control... Eugenics... Where does it end...

Nearly all documentary makers hold to this doctrine that they do not interfere with nature no matter how attached you get to an animal... I recall watching a few documentaries where they show the tragic end to an animals life... They could of saved it from attack or disease but who are they to make such a decision... Who are we to intervene... Do we know better than God...

I did see one doco where an eagle got poisoned from eating a rabbit that was poisoned by man.. So because it was mans reckless intervention that caused this sickness to bird the film makers decided to save it which is fair i think...

Giant flightless birds used to roam New Zealand, bigger than ostriches... They used to get hunted by the Haast eagle, a real monster in the sky... Biggest eagle fossils ever found...

But unlike every other major land mass in the world NZ didn't get habituated until very late on, after 1,000AD...
The Polynesians arrived and hunted the Moa to extinction... The Haast eagle resorted to hunting smaller humans but it wasn't enough, they too were extinct... By the time the poms got there in the 18th century these giant birds of NZ were all but gone... So who do we condemn? The Maoris? Did they abandoned these big birds? Off course not

So i reckon, stop playing God... Stop trying to change the weather... Stop trying choose who lives or dies?
These things are not for man to decide... We must do our best not to harm nature, that's preventative action. But its not our place to try and save species... The bible doesn't say so... The bible says that God and fellow man should be our priorities... So i think we should be more focused on that and let God deal with the rest.
 
recycling since you mentioned is the primary reason plastics are dumped since unless we mandate purchasing of recycled plastic at 100 percent ,it gets thrown out by the third ave fourth world nations who take the west's recycled materials ,it costs more to reuse plastic then to simply make it from,virgin .more energy is used to clean,convert it from one type of plastic to another ,I can't recycle bags in my county ,they jam the machinery ,so I use them for trash bags or when I turn uniforms I, for work .
 
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