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Gulf Oil Spill Disaster — Spawn of the Living Dead
grrlscientist writes "A recently published study, intended to provide data to commercial fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico so they maximize their catch of Yellowfin Tuna, Thunnus albacares, whilst avoiding bycatch of critically endangered Atlantic (Northern) Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus thynnus, suggests that the Deepwater Horizon oil leak may devastate the endangered Atlantic bluefin population, causing it to completely collapse or possibly go extinct."
Is it really that simple? Why is biological diversity important? I mean if you fallow Darwinian logic won't there eventually only be one species? Survival of the fittest and all. Eventual all species should optimize to their environment or die off. Why is it so important to keep species who can't adapt?
Really we just need a variety of plants, cows, pigs, chicken, salmon, talapia and some other basic organisms used to support those animals and we're all good. The rest of the stuff out there just adds flavor to the pallet. I mean I guess you would have to worry about a major disease destroying the food supply (like what happened to banana's), but other than that is biological diversity that important? Do we really need to save the whales? What about the useless manatee?
Can we stop with this idiotic argument that the universe will survive just fine without humans? No shit, Sherlock. Way to state the obvious, Capt'n Obvious. In the meantime, I'd like to make sure that my life is nice and cushy, and that of my kids as well. Unfortunately, that requires a stable ecosystem. And a hallmark of a stable ecosystem is a diverse ecosystem.
What a typical, pompous, self-important, human dipshit.
By your same fucking argument we shouldn't be wiping out polio or HIV or malaria. WHO KNOWS HOW IMPORTANT THEY MAY BE!?!?!?
You don't give a shit about the environment, nor do you know what is good or bad for it.
You just know what it's like now, and fear any change because it could potentially make you somewhat uncomfortable.
There is zero logical reason for humans to actively "protect" the environment. Not only is our idea of "protection" a simple prevention of any and all change, the idea that we need to do it comes from fear and selfishness, not any inherently good intention.
It is emotion, not reason, that drives you and others to cry about "protecting" the environment as if you are its rightful master. For all you know the current state of the environment is holding back the evolution of a species that will be far superior to ours.
We are here today because the previous batch of dominant organisms did not alter their environment to continue to suit them.
For us to think that we have some right to alter the environment to suit ourselves at the cost of other potential species is hubris. The idea that we have the capability to do so is laughable.
You're not for the environment, you're for your current cushy lifestyle. An unknown, big change is just as likely to be good for humans as it is to be bad.
You simply fear the unknown.
Enjoy your short ride on this rock. Know that you "deserve" nothing more than will be allotted, and come to terms with your inability to change that.