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| Originally Posted by fijidave So does that mean we should be happy to let Norway and Japan hunt as many whales as they want to? Or let people hunt tigers or rhinos to extinction? Ultimately the money that people make doing this goes to feed their familiy, so can we say they can't do it? Well, yes I think we should.
Extinction events take a long, long, long time to recover from, man has already caused the extinction of thousands of species and once they're gone, that's it, they're gone. Yes, nature will eventually fill the holes with something else, but we need to be thinking about the world that we'll be leaving to our children and their children, if we want to them to be able to fish in the seas then we need to make sure there are still viable populations of fish.
But yes, I do agree, our fishing fleet has been royally screwed. |
Dave, if a norwegian or a japanese WANT to eat whale meat what gives anyone the right to say they cant? nobody tells the eban natives they cant eat cockroaches, nor the kalahari bushmen that they cant eat mealy bugs or termite larvae.
jungle rules apply here, adapt or die. eat or be eaten!
if society chooses to cast off the last of the hunters, (as the fishermen undoubtedly are) then our species loses big time.