Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Predator Control.

There have been recent articles in the newspaper about the new plight to create a means to predator control. There is a plan hoping to set into action to basically kill some of the populace of wolves in order to increase the number of moose. I believe that is a problem with the Taker lifestyle that the book Ishmael touched on. Trying to control things such as agriculture and the amount of animals. There is no real science where you can keep a direct count on amounts of such things so it seems inevitable harmful to the environment. There is no science saying that if you kill so many wolves, more moose will survive. It is not up to humans to control mother nature and it's inhabitants. There are other more important factors in animal population. Climate change has a huge impact on how many moose survive. Also, there are factors such as vehicle accidents which can account for large quantities of death to moose. So in the long run we could just end up killing wolves for no reason. There is no substantial evidence that supports the slaughtering of wolves to increase moose population. It seems risky and very much like a Taker mindset to, as one could say, "take" what is not theirs. Things such as population of animals cannot be controlled by humans. It is not humanities role to be the controller of such things. I see how this ties into Ishmael by the taker mindset being that the world was made for humans so we have the right to do what we want.

The leaver lifestyle only took what they needed and left the rest alone. This mindset could be partially if not completely the reason for their success. It was not until agriculture ,the key to life, started being controlled did things take a drastic change. Wether trying to increase moose supply for food or not, that should not be our decision as humanity.

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