From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 10:45:34 MST
sb@gbn.org (Stewart Brand) writes:
>At 1:23 AM -0800 3/23/00, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> >Stewart, IMO, merely identifying all of the species would be
> >relatively worthless.
>
>So far, systematic biologists are saying the project is 1) doable, 2)
>eminently worth doing. Bear in mind that proper species
>identification involves collecting and keeping individuals and
>tissue.
The people who get paid to that kind of thing say it's valuable? It's
hard to think of any activity for which that isn't true.
Unless I hear some way of measuring the benefits, I assume such self-serving
opinions are worthless. The rationales I've heard for identifying species
sound vaguer than most.
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