RE: Geoengineering ...
March 18, 2011 at 10:25 am
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2011 at 11:40 am by ib.me.ub.)
You better go back and read what I have written. Because you dismiss my agrument towards species equality dosen't mean I haven't explained it earlier. It also dosen't mean it is wrong becuase you have asserted that you think it is wrong.
Comments like;
'fuck the animals'
'kill the animals'
'and we don't need them to survive'
are good examples of your own moral framework. A sense of morality that is obviously inadequate.
I can however assure that many species on this planet, being animal or plant, are neccesary to sustain human life. Maybe not cats, but others like plankton, have a significant impact on the ecosytem as a whole.
Many animal and plants rely upon one another to survive, including humans. Once you start to rule out certain specied at random, as we do today with random species extinction, you start to run the thin line of ecosystem breakdown. You only need one key species to dissapear, plankton for example, and this will have major affects on humans further down the food chain. Plankton is but one example, birds & bees are others. I think you will find that many key species that are essential tio sustain life on earth.
To have no respect for the ecosystem which sustains yourself and everything else is not only naive, but also immoral. It is immoral becuase, eventually, your type of careless thinking will cause the death and sufferenig of many species, including humans.
Lastly, in terms of my intuition, if we can kill and destroy other species at will, and we understand that we can, why would this give us a reason to want to do so?
What makes us so much better than them?
It seems to me that this type of selfish thinking and complete disregard for the environment had got us into the squeeze we are in, where we start to think about geoenigineering as a solution.
Comments like;
'fuck the animals'
'kill the animals'
'and we don't need them to survive'
are good examples of your own moral framework. A sense of morality that is obviously inadequate.
I can however assure that many species on this planet, being animal or plant, are neccesary to sustain human life. Maybe not cats, but others like plankton, have a significant impact on the ecosytem as a whole.
Many animal and plants rely upon one another to survive, including humans. Once you start to rule out certain specied at random, as we do today with random species extinction, you start to run the thin line of ecosystem breakdown. You only need one key species to dissapear, plankton for example, and this will have major affects on humans further down the food chain. Plankton is but one example, birds & bees are others. I think you will find that many key species that are essential tio sustain life on earth.
To have no respect for the ecosystem which sustains yourself and everything else is not only naive, but also immoral. It is immoral becuase, eventually, your type of careless thinking will cause the death and sufferenig of many species, including humans.
Lastly, in terms of my intuition, if we can kill and destroy other species at will, and we understand that we can, why would this give us a reason to want to do so?
What makes us so much better than them?
It seems to me that this type of selfish thinking and complete disregard for the environment had got us into the squeeze we are in, where we start to think about geoenigineering as a solution.