Sorry, but the mantra of the intellectually challenged does not impress me in the slighest. Your arguments are simplistic and frankly, are both uninformed and lack any scientific credibility. Yes extinctions do occur but, the RATE of extinctions has increased dramatically. Your lack of concern for species that need protection due to anthropogenic effects is disturbing. Expecting another species to magically take over the role or niche of another species is well, dreamy.
Not nuanced and subtle enough for you Mr. Kerry?
So how many varieties of seed eating finches do we need to have around to make sure enough seeds are being eaten?
Neither one of us know.
We do have one thing in common; I am similarly unimpressed by the claim of special wisdom from some one that did not even bother to try and shoot down "simplistic" and "uninformed" points that "lack scientific credibility". Some one with your God-like intellect of being able to discern which species belong where and at the proper numbers should be able to do that in your sleep.
So you hate cats. Fine.
Here's the deal, noob -- we stop posting to each other and agree to disagree. Have a great weekend, mm'K?
Ditto to your post. I think it in our own self-interest to protect wildlife as much as possible. For example, I was just listening to a story on the radio about how the great reduction in shark numbers has led to an overpopulation of some sort of ray (manta, sting, something like that) which are vacuuming up the desirable scallop and oyster beds on the west coast. The sharks were the apex predators that kept ray populations in check. Now maybe one doesn’t care about sharks or rays, but lots of people certainly appreciate scallops and oysters - oysters that they’d been trying hard to reestablish.