If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?

[Huggy Bear]

For example, as you may know I do a little bit of fishing once in a while up in Alaska. The department of fish and game has resorted to constructing platforms along certain rivers to keep people from walking directly on the banks because it's detrimental to the habitat of baby salmon, which use the vegetation along the banks as a food source and shelter from predators.

I'm not sure why you think this would be an example of the above.  We manage our wildlife resources.  Why do you not see -this- as a role that human beings play in the ecosystem? Human beings are, in your example...improving the ecosystem, by the metrics you seem to be using for improvement. We do this intentionally and unintentionally for a variety of species.

Seriously?

There would be no need for management if humans were out of the picture, they certainly are not building the platforms for the bears. Also which species is doing all the over fishing?