From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 14:45:28 MDT
James Rogers <jamesr@best.com> Wrote on
Wed, 13 Sep 2000 07:04:28 -0700
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>I don't see too many homo erectus wandering around these days,
yet no one laments their disappearance.<
Good point. While there is a bit of an absurdity in the favored
species preservation agenda, efforts are made in putting together
the missing parts of our own past skeletal structures which are
modestly regenerated for viewing, but uanble to walk around.
>Maybe I am alone in this, but I don't see anything wrong with
extinction in principle. For every species that becomes extinct,
a new one pops into existence to take its place, and probably
does a better job of it. I simply can't fathom how the government,
at the direction of environmental groups, can spend millions
or billions of dollars to save a rare insect that was obviously
poorly adapted to survive anyway. What a waste of resources.
With only a small number of exceptions, most species that
become exinct today would have become extinct in a relatively
short period of time anyway, with or without our help.<
This is my view: When we are able to preserve ourselves first,
we can then work to preserve other species.
The very fact that more efforts and dollars are spent preserving
a limited lifespan for other species while avoiding or ignoring
the individual extinction of our own species, person by person
by death, is deplorable.
Natasha
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