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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (15632)	8/10/2007 3:33:31 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

Where ever found throughout history, human beings have dominated their habitats. I wound not agree with that. Modern humans are thought to have been in very small numbers at times in even the last 100K years, so I would not say they dominated their habitats at all times. But even if they have, the total history of modern humans is a speck in the time span of life on the planet. So we have the very interesting situation where the vast sweep of life's history on earth has suddenly run into a modification (intelligence) which is now dominating the ecosystem to the point that most other large species fate is now in the hands of one species. There is no historical precedent for that. Hunters kill the best specimens, natural predators cull the weak That was what I had in mind when commenting that it should be relatively easy to do better than hunting. Hunting has a long history of taking the best trophies, not the worst. Kind of brain dead.