Botswana Selling Licenses To Kill Elephants At $39,000 A Head

[Nitram]

75. It is not only a problem of human hubris. Unless you want to start culling humans, the

only humane solution is to establish protected habitat for animals and plants and scientifically manage populations to survivable limits within those habitats. Are you in favor of culling humans or moving tens of thousands of humans to concentration camps to make room for larger animal populations? Please explain your proposal beyond angry protestations that everything sucks. Humans are here to stay, and if we value nature we will protect large swaths of protected habitat to support sustainable populations of wildlife. Getting angry and saying everything sucks won't help animals. We're here, like it or not, and those of us who love nature want to protect a significant portion of it. But the horse is out of the barn, the toothpaste is out of the tube, or what ever metaphor you prefer. Extinctions have come and extinctions have gone, with or without human intervention, and nature will survive and evolve regardless of what we do. It is not actually possible to freeze the planet at one particular stage of evolution and protect everything the way it is right now. The continents continue to move, the climate continues to change, and nature always goes with the flow. That's what evolution has always been about. Ask the Ammonites how they feel about becoming the dominant species on Earth, and than disappearing entirely. Before humans had even evolved. What about the dinosaurs? Who is to blame for their extinction, which led to the rise of the mammals and eventually to human evolution. Nature is so much vaster and deeper than anything we can understand, and the time frames with which geology and evolution work are beyond our comprehension. Let's do what we can, but accept our inability to have more than very short term effects on ecosystems.