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Re: A Brave New World
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 24 Jul 2001 06:09:51 GMT
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Christopher Weeks wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tim Courtney writes:
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> > I understand the bald eagle is an endangered species, not to mention our
> > national bird. The fact that it has eggs adds a bit of weight. But, I'm sure
> > there would have been ways to safely transplant the bird to another location
> > where it can still exist in its natural habitat.
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> You are sure of this...why?
Hm, maybe because we are successfully raising bald eagles and releasing them to the
wild?
> > They let one animal be the
> > difference between a more efficient airport access road, even AFTER they • kicked
> > the HUMANS in the area out. Something's messed up there, when nature and
> > animals have more rights than people.
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> Animls don't have more rights than people.
Tell that to the treehuggers that are snarling up the courts to delay projects left
and right.
> However, people are just beginning
> to take our role as stewards of this planet seriously. It would have been
> better if they could have identified the eagle's presense before migrating the
> people, but sometimes accidents happen. I happen to support the stance that we
> can not afford to lose more species.
Moving ONE eagle != wiping out the species.
> We just don't know what untold treasures
> lie in the genes of the critters that we're destroying. Apart from the
> aesthetic that tells me that buldozing endangered species is inappropriate,
> from the selfish stance of our species, migrating a few people around is small
> potatoes compared to losing such resources for all time.
I might agree IF it were the balance of an entire species at stake, but ONE eagle?
Bah!
What's worse is when multi-million (maybe even billion) dollar projects that would
benefit millions of people are held up for some fish that only inhabits one creek
somewhere. Sorry, you're not going to convince me that a guppy is more important
than people.
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Tom Stangl
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