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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (15615)8/10/2007 2:47:29 PM
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"However, the real question to me is are you making survival of the fittest neutral to humans? "

It's not neutral but it isn't the same as herd creatures or frogs or something, who must adapt to changes of a particular biome. Humans are more complex. The fitness that provides longevity for humans may at times be more associated with cleverness or wisdom than physical prowess. Our destruction is more often associated with some corruption in the system than with physical defeat, although that may follow. The dangers that lurk for humans lie more within us than behind some bush in the ecosystem.

"We are only one species, and until modern times, most animal evolution was driven by the ecosystem as a whole, not the actions of a single species."

Where ever found throughout history, human beings have dominated their habitats.

So I would think that birth control methods could certainly be implemented at least as well as hunting is.

The only reason to manage wild life is because of some disruption in the wild pristine conditions that disrupt balances. Domesticating wildlife to make them less violent destroys their natural motivations to thrive. Birth control could be like hunting in regions where their is an imbalance, but the managers could get overly zealous and destroy the natural elements that contribute to fitness in the process. Hunt management used to do that when they eliminated natural predators so the hunters have more to shoot at. Hunters kill the best specimens, natural predators cull the weak. The former corrupts the system, while the latter strengthens it.

"How much better you can do would depend on many assumptions and no doubt some of that highly maligned science endevour of modelling."

I've never heard modelling get maligned except when it hampers further exploration ... usually because of funding issues.
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