As usual, hunters have an excuse to kill. If African nations promoted camera hunting over shooting they would still have the $$ and the animals…instead of world hatred and disgust over idiots who don’t a: play by the rules b: think they’re more important than anyone else c: always seem to kill iconic creatures that the rest of the world may now never get to see. I’m not seeing how that helps.
There was five mass extinctions on earth before man ever existed. Nature has a way of taking care of itself, and it will take care of man sooner or later.
The real question is what happens to man if they do drive a animal to extinction? I mean there are some animals that have been driven to extinction but there is others like cattle that has had their population explode under mankind. Bisen are greatly reduced, beef is way up…pigs are way up, anything we eat is way up.
While I disagree with man killing off a specifies I just don’t see any real damage from it, at least with animals. I definitely do with trees, they generate oxygen and that is pretty important.
Killing animals directly isn’t usually the main culprit it’s usually loss of habitat. Loss of habitat also means loss of prey animals as well as loss of real estate. Saber-toothed kitties went extinct because the animals they preyed on went extinct.
Extinction by loss of habitat isn’t necessarily a bad thing. At one time North America had locusts similar to other parts of the world: swarming masses that eat every piece of vegetation that they come across.
The bad news, for the locusts, was that they had a limited breeding ground: they all went back to the same place to reproduce. Settlers came along, plowed up these areas and destroyed their breeding ground. Almost instant extinction.
Each time we think we can change some small aspect of the natural world, we find that things are connected in ways that aren’t readily apparent until they’re changed. I imagine one day science will eliminate the last cockroach in the world, and only then discover that cockroaches were keeping something down that we’d like even less.
annette143NotMe said, @angelfiredragon“deciding what is important based on our needs = self-serving. that’s what I dislike most about ’humanity :( ".Some things just need to be extinct.That’s why far more species were already extinct when we came along than existed on earth when we evolved..Interesting thought that evolution produced a better extinctor (us) so we could improve on the process..Next up: killer mosquitoes. Let the non-blood-borne-disease vectors live; wipe out the rest of ’em.(I heard today on NPR dozens of microcephalic infants being born in one hospital in Haiti. Zika virus is not nice. We have enough near-brainless folks already. ).Even if that is selfishly based on our needs such as happy mothers.
Wilde Bill almost 8 years ago
I see that “leave it alone” is not an option, nor is “Run like hêll”.
Calvinist1966 almost 8 years ago
I think that “Kill for sport” comes under the heading of “Drive to extinction.”
silverclaw33 almost 8 years ago
There needs to be a “Run Away” on that wheel somewhere.
comixbomix almost 8 years ago
Can’t we do all of them??? Who needs a wheel?
RoseHawke almost 8 years ago
I should think "run away’ would be immediately obvious.
hariseldon59 almost 8 years ago
Helloooo Zeeba Neighba!
mountainside87 Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Ok, now that’s funny!
jtviper7 almost 8 years ago
I think that’s the ♫Wheel Of Fortune♫ that Kay Starr sang about.
cubswin2016 almost 8 years ago
We have not evolved so much from that practice, sadly.
VickiP123 almost 8 years ago
As usual, hunters have an excuse to kill. If African nations promoted camera hunting over shooting they would still have the $$ and the animals…instead of world hatred and disgust over idiots who don’t a: play by the rules b: think they’re more important than anyone else c: always seem to kill iconic creatures that the rest of the world may now never get to see. I’m not seeing how that helps.
angelfiredragon almost 8 years ago
There was five mass extinctions on earth before man ever existed. Nature has a way of taking care of itself, and it will take care of man sooner or later.
The real question is what happens to man if they do drive a animal to extinction? I mean there are some animals that have been driven to extinction but there is others like cattle that has had their population explode under mankind. Bisen are greatly reduced, beef is way up…pigs are way up, anything we eat is way up.
While I disagree with man killing off a specifies I just don’t see any real damage from it, at least with animals. I definitely do with trees, they generate oxygen and that is pretty important.
dflak almost 8 years ago
Killing animals directly isn’t usually the main culprit it’s usually loss of habitat. Loss of habitat also means loss of prey animals as well as loss of real estate. Saber-toothed kitties went extinct because the animals they preyed on went extinct.
Extinction by loss of habitat isn’t necessarily a bad thing. At one time North America had locusts similar to other parts of the world: swarming masses that eat every piece of vegetation that they come across.
The bad news, for the locusts, was that they had a limited breeding ground: they all went back to the same place to reproduce. Settlers came along, plowed up these areas and destroyed their breeding ground. Almost instant extinction.
dflak almost 8 years ago
I, for one, do not morn the extinction of the smallpox virus.
Brother Bob almost 8 years ago
I cannot believe no one spotted the first panel with Peter and BC and the rest of the panels BC has changed his hair color from Orange to Brown
Kip W almost 8 years ago
Each time we think we can change some small aspect of the natural world, we find that things are connected in ways that aren’t readily apparent until they’re changed. I imagine one day science will eliminate the last cockroach in the world, and only then discover that cockroaches were keeping something down that we’d like even less.
markjoseph125 almost 8 years ago
I want to see what they do with that wheel when they discover a new species of cockroach.
neverenoughgold almost 8 years ago
What goes around, comes around…
David Huie Green ForceIsAUsefulFiction almost 8 years ago
annette143NotMe said, @angelfiredragon“deciding what is important based on our needs = self-serving. that’s what I dislike most about ’humanity :( ".Some things just need to be extinct.That’s why far more species were already extinct when we came along than existed on earth when we evolved..Interesting thought that evolution produced a better extinctor (us) so we could improve on the process..Next up: killer mosquitoes. Let the non-blood-borne-disease vectors live; wipe out the rest of ’em.(I heard today on NPR dozens of microcephalic infants being born in one hospital in Haiti. Zika virus is not nice. We have enough near-brainless folks already. ).Even if that is selfishly based on our needs such as happy mothers.