[Louis Foxwell]

I have been looking for a post on which to vent my newest insight about environmentalism, endangered species and global warming.
It strikes me as significant that the enviro crowd bases its principles on opposition to science and nature. Allow me to explain.
Evolution teaches the extermination of species. A full 99% of all species that have ever existed are extinct. Presumably they have been replaced by species better adapted to a constantly changing environment.
Species become extinct based on their inability to exist in an environment that fluctuates beyond the edges of their tolerance.
So, this is too easy. How is it, then, that we should seek to stop environmental change and preserve species from extinction? Does not that effort conflict with nature?
This leads me to the inescapable conclusion that eco fanatics fear nature, fear animals, and fear change. They seek an environment in which nothing ever changes. Why, the very notion of evolution is in direct conflict with the goals of the species, climate and eco crowd.
Blaming humans for natural processes of change is particularly specious. Nature has produced humans, according to the evolutionists, as the most advanced form of complex life. Are we to believe that nature has created its own destroyer?
The endangered species act is, without question, the single most important piece of nature legistlation ever written. Its implementation, however, is governed by the belief that humans despoil nature. It is left to bureaucrats, then, to protect species from the rampages of the deranged human crowd.
As a consequence picking up an empty turtle egg casing on the beach is punishable by near death experience. The sea turtle is a sacred and holy creature, not to be touched by the undesignated. This stupid policy, of course, is slowly exterminating sea turtles.
Their hatchlings are completely consumed every year by marauding gulls, fish and their ilk. There is no replacement population. The same is true of every so-called endangered species. Nature, of course, wishes for nothing more than the continued extermination of species no longer able to get along with the red-in-tooth-and-claw-crowd.
The only hope for the continuation of countless species is the husbandry of interested humans. This solution, according to the wisdom of those charged with enforcing endangered species legislation, is strictly forbidden.
Every animal introduced into the pet industry is now flourishing beyond simple replacement numbers. Whether it is corals, reptiles, fish, small mammals, birds, hoof stock, all captive bred populations are flourishing. It is only those designated threatened and endangered that are systematically required to die off.
If species are to be protected it will be because the enormous resources of the private husbandry sector are encouraged to do what they do best, preserve and propogate.
Chew on this, nutbars.

[jennyp]

Every animal introduced into the pet industry is now flourishing beyond simple replacement numbers. Whether it is corals, reptiles, fish, small mammals, birds, hoof stock, all captive bred populations are flourishing. It is only those designated threatened and endangered that are systematically required to die off.

If species are to be protected it will be because the enormous resources of the private husbandry sector are encouraged to do what they do best, preserve and propogate.

Very true! That's why I want to see more chimpanzees as pets. Extinction problem solved. But it won't happen, for the reasons you state.

I think this is further evidence that leftism is a belief system that poisons the well for every other topic or societal concern it touches, even if those other topics are themselves perfectly valid.

What's frustrating to me is, so many conservatives have let themselves get suckered into the trap of assuming that it's these other topics or concerns that are inherently wrong-headed, when in fact it's the silly arguments & approaches that the leftists have used whenever they jump onto the bandwagon to fix some particular problem, that have poisoned the well & made the concern itself look silly.