Wild things have been accommodating civilization
from the beginning of civilization.
So we give the refuges and preserves.
Until oil or goal is discovered there,
and then we put up fences.
Sometimes we build land "bridges" over interstate highways
to accomodate migration routes,
and sometimes not.
It is not wise to get in the way of progress.
And how many species are going extinct per month these days?
Civilization is not--make that people are not--good for nature.
And anything that is not good for nature is not good for people.
Shooting ourselves in the foot in service of the profit motive is what we do best. If a profit can be made a profit will be made, you know, at the expense of whatever is in the way. If we are in the way, too bad for us.
We are too greedy for our own good. And always have been. We won’t be missed at all.
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