Re: Re: Species Conservation

[Doug Brown <debrown@kodak.com>]

You get your neighbor to take care of your fish for a few weeks while
you're gone. You come back and there's medical waste, tires, gum wads, car
batteries, cement piles, leaking drums of carcinogens, beer bottles and a
'49 Chevy in your tanks and your A. paucisquamis "Anavilhanas Island"
(Kullander, 1988) that finally spawned are dead. You clean out the tanks
and start over.

Do you let your neighbor fish-sit again?

><<nature has taken its course for millions of years on this planet
>without us - and will continue to do so. Resistance is futile.>>
>
>You are missing the point.  If this was a case of "nature taking it's course"
>it indeed would be one thing.  But I don't think that the intervention of man
>into natural ecosystems is a "natural" event. I think that when we have
>screwed something up that it is incumbent on us to at least try to mitigate
>the damage, although,as you have pointed out, putting Pandora back in the box
>can be somewhat problematical.
>In the long run,the earth will get over any damage we can inflict, but we
>won't be around to see it.  The point is, what type of earth do we want to
>live in?  Trying to mitigate damage that we have caused, or better yet, to
>avoid as much of the damage as possible, is not a futile endevour.
>Well,that's my two cents worth.
>Jeff
>WndrKdnomo@aol.com


- -Doug Brown
debrown@kodak.com