Humanity’s relationship with animals has become one of complete domination and continued attempts at eradication. There has been little attempt at symbiosis except where the animal is grown for food as a part of the economic system. The reduction of animals to financial worth is one of the vilest value systems ever created.
Here in the UK we murdered all the wolves and bears long ago and if we were serious about biodiversity we would make every effort to reintroduce them and train people to live with the dangers safely. Canadians live with bears and in eastern Europe they live with wolves. We would do this on the basis that we wish others to live with dangers for the benefit of the planet and we should shoulder our share of the effort.
But we are hypocrites. Otters and beavers we don’t mind (in the main) until they affect our incomes but carnivores are for other countries, not us.
#extinction
#Bristol