cheburashka
Senior Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- May 28, 2005
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Re: Human gets fined $100k for boat ramp
That's not what I said. More accurately, the ecosystem represented by that particular SPECIES of fish is more important than the right of those 2,000 people to farm IN THAT PARTICULAR AREA. No doubt there are migratory birds that eat those suckerfish, and other forms of life that are eaten by the suckerfish, and when you take the suckerfish out of the equation, stuff starts getting fouled up. I'm not saying we need to round the farmers up and shoot them. I'm saying that they need to find a new place to farm, or something to do other than farming. People do this kind of thing all of the time.
As I said before, the reason the plan to restore the fish failed because of bureaucratic incompetence, not because the plan was poorly thought out. If they hadn't decided to charge for the water, everything would have been fine. If the farmers had opted to pay for the water, everything would have been fine. Don't blame the fish or the scientists for the decisions of others.
The attitude that we, as human beings, can do whatever we want wherever we want regardless of the harm it may cause to other species around us has gotten us into a lot of trouble from an environmental standpoint. Check out what's happening to the coral reefs, which will be gone in a matter of less than a century if we don't take some kind of conservation action.
We're learning to do better, but when an arrogant self-centered human being decides that his concrete boat ramp is more important than the health of the river it's a major step backwards.
That's not what I said. More accurately, the ecosystem represented by that particular SPECIES of fish is more important than the right of those 2,000 people to farm IN THAT PARTICULAR AREA. No doubt there are migratory birds that eat those suckerfish, and other forms of life that are eaten by the suckerfish, and when you take the suckerfish out of the equation, stuff starts getting fouled up. I'm not saying we need to round the farmers up and shoot them. I'm saying that they need to find a new place to farm, or something to do other than farming. People do this kind of thing all of the time.
As I said before, the reason the plan to restore the fish failed because of bureaucratic incompetence, not because the plan was poorly thought out. If they hadn't decided to charge for the water, everything would have been fine. If the farmers had opted to pay for the water, everything would have been fine. Don't blame the fish or the scientists for the decisions of others.
The attitude that we, as human beings, can do whatever we want wherever we want regardless of the harm it may cause to other species around us has gotten us into a lot of trouble from an environmental standpoint. Check out what's happening to the coral reefs, which will be gone in a matter of less than a century if we don't take some kind of conservation action.
We're learning to do better, but when an arrogant self-centered human being decides that his concrete boat ramp is more important than the health of the river it's a major step backwards.
