Robair Robair:
Sure, but the black rhino was poached from a population of 6,000 to 0 for it's horn. An aphrodisiac in Yemen and China. That's not exploiting a resource, that's just retarded.
And I still don't find it funny.
Yup. So's hacking down the Amazon. But are we that much more advanced here in North America? Our ecological footprint is much bigger. We are far more efficient at taking what we need, far more particular about what we take, and far better and hiding impacts from the majority of the population, but we are degrading the environment far, far more than a bunch of Yemeni peasants.
If we succeed in developing solutions for climate change and loss of biodiversity and increase our food yields and develop more and better medicines and pesticides and energy sources, then all that happens is that we increse the popualtion of teh planet to ten billion, only to face even more intractbale environmental problems.
I'm not trying to be negative, just pointing out a basic thermodynamic fact: we advance and grow at the cost of the ecosystem. There is nothing else from which we extract energy.
Gene pool off the planet! Where's Bart, he'll back me up on this one.
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) On the more serious side though, conservation is a legitimate concern that deserves promotion to some extent, but certainly not at the cost of human progress and development. I am not sure how or when it developed into a politically divisive issue, but I don't believe it ever should have.
