At 9/30/09 08:23 AM, XxRobJohnsonxX wrote:
8) Conservation Biology. If a species cannot survive without special attention, it should be forced to adapt, evolve, migrate, or perish. If not, it will always require special attention. New species that should come into existence (ones which can coexist with man) are never created, and species (ones which cannot coexist with man) are never allowed to perish, all due to man's protective stupidity. Continuing to follow this beaten path, as civilizations flourish and expand, will eventually result in the domestication of all animals on the planet, and nature, as we know it, will cease to exist.
I don't think that's how evolution works. If Rhinoceroses are being hunted to extinction, they aren't going to develop bulletproof skin just because they need it to survive. Overfishing isn't going to force the fish to adapt to make more babies, and it isn't going to force them to find some other food source or grow skin that is impenetrable by fish hooks. You can put a ban on hunting the animal, but it will only make hunting more prevalent because the price of ivory from rhinoceroses has just shot up because it's illegal now - eventually you have to step in.
Yes, it involves interbreeding in cases, and yes, it stops nature, but if you don't try, humans are willing to destroy anything and everything to get what they want - no force in the world could stand up to or survive the evil and green known to humans.
In fact, I think that conservative biology, domestication, is one of the few ways animals can coexist with man, and proof that they have grown to realize that humans can and will kill them, so those that submit ant allow domestication are the ones that survive and pass on their genes, while the animals that don't are slaughtered - their kind are wiped out. Those that survive have adapted and 'evolved' in a short time to survive in a new environment.
