Should we allow Pandas to go extinct?

[vorlon13]

Some Chinese lower upper mid level tertiary bureaucrat could sell out all of the pandas for a manufacturing facility to make defective cell phone cases and all the pandas would be dead before anybody in San Francisco could spill their mocha caramel latte on their tablets in surprise.

Get used to that level of cynicism, it's how the world is setup.

[Zen Badger]

I think the pandas were well on their way to extinction without any help from us.

[Cato]

Yes. Mr. Jefferies will explain why...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4eqUtK61SOs

[Welsh cake]

To me this a black and white issue.

http://youtu.be/9b7EiV7jFho

EDIT:

Oh go fuck yourself technology. >:c

Apparently linking to YouTube videos is now considered the mystical arts.

[Anomalocaris]

So a little bit of research and I found out that giant panda's numbers are increasing in the wild. Apparently the high costs associated with them deal with keeping and breeding Pandas that are in captivity. The cost of saving them in the wild should be no more than the cost of preserving their natural habitat, which shouldn't be more than any other species. So if the question about whether or not Zoos should spend so much on their Panda programs is different than whether or not we (or the Chinese government) should preserve wild Pandas. I think they are worth keeping in the wild.

Actually, giant panda numbers in the wild wouldn't have increased were it not for huge captive breeding facilities in china that are breeding zoo pandas, artificially training baby pandas for wild life skills, and releasing these human bred and human trained pandas back into the wild.

A reason why this level of conservational bioengineering is possible is because publicity generated by pandas in zoos.

[Minimalist]

I voted "Yes" because our biggest problem is going to be preventing ourselves from going extinct.

Pandas. You're on your own.

[ignoramus]

why didn't the arseholes do anything to save this magnificent creature!





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[Anomalocaris]

I voted "Yes" because our biggest problem is going to be preventing ourselves from going extinct.

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Don't worry. The resistance of a specie to eradication is proportional to how unprincipled, vicious, opportunistic, annoying and irredeemable it is. Therefore we can confidently expect to successively outlast rats, cockroaches, Allah and the Christian god.

[Thumpalumpacus]

What have they done for me lately?

[Anomalocaris]

What have they done for me lately?

They make my hair stand on end whenever little kids see one of them.