“When will Africans rid the planet of all predators over there? Who needs lions, chettahs and leopords anyway?”
For us they are beautiful animals. Trying to keep all the beautiful animals around is wonderful, but we don’t live with them. We can fly over, stay in a hotel and then take a guided tour to see all the beautiful animals. That’s a first world attitude. Some of those African nations will have a huge population by the end of the century. I suspect there will be very few predators left in the wild. There will be very little wild left in the wild.
F a lion, f a wolf....
“For us they are beautiful animals. Trying to keep all the beautiful animals around is wonderful, but we don’t live with them. We can fly over, stay in a hotel and then take a guided tour to see all the beautiful animals. That’s a first world attitude. Some of those African nations will have a huge population by the end of the century. I suspect there will be very few predators left in the wild. There will be very little wild left in the wild.”
That’s a reasonable/logical sentiment. However, it presupposes that things are going to stay the same, or change but little, geopolitically speaking.
Clearly, these are times of tremendous political, social, economic, cultural, etc., upheaval. I imagine that in 20 years we will be looking at a completely different world, or one that we could scarcely have imagined.
And remember Agenda 21? Its premise is that humanity belongs packed together in urban population centers. (Think Judge Dredd.) The wild may end up becoming even more wild, if more pandemics are in the offing, and that appears to be the case.