Re:Only 14 percent of Earth's species have been discovered
by anamax on Thursday August 25, 2011 @12:47PM
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> We destroy species before we have any knowledge of them. That's my interpretation but I can see why you're asking it.
That's not my interpretation. In any event, species have been going extinct for almost as long as there have been species. It's unclear that we've appreciably changed the extinction.
And, while one may be scared by species extinction, it's how things work. (I'm scared of height, but that doesn't imply that someone should do something about height.)
BTW - we've probably preserved and enabled species, especially at the low-end, that would have otherwise gone extinct or never come into being.
That's not my interpretation. In any event, species have been going extinct for almost as long as there have been species. It's unclear that we've appreciably changed the extinction.
And, while one may be scared by species extinction, it's how things work. (I'm scared of height, but that doesn't imply that someone should do something about height.)
BTW - we've probably preserved and enabled species, especially at the low-end, that would have otherwise gone extinct or never come into being.