A dream came true: Half grown Siberian tiger in the snow

TN Args wrote:

Have a read of this.

An ecosystem that naturally has individual lives and whole species arising and falling is fine, and the pace is such that adaptations can occur in some instances and not in others. An evolutionary pace. One day, the conditions of existence will eliminate it all, if not earlier then, ultimately, when the sun moves through its own life cycle.

But when one part of that system becomes completely dominant, reproduces rampantly to plague proportions, overwhelms all other life (the 'background' species extinction rate is 1 to 5 species per year, but today it is 1,000 to 10,000 times that rate), greatly accelerates climate changes on a planetary scale, then adaptation becomes impossible and the system is on course to abrupt collapse.

To argue 'that's okay too' is essentially a death wish. Essentially the same as willingly being part of the evil monster of so many morality tales, set on course to destroy the planet.

Well said.  The article makes the very simply point that human activity has become  the - major driver of cataclysmically-rapid environmental disruption that is accelerating because we are continue to feed major positive feedback processes (global warming, ocean acidification,  etc)

To sit back and do nothing, insisting that these are inevitable, even as one continues to contribute  to them is not just immoral, it is, in the not-very-long-run, suicidal.

In the case of the Siberian Tiger, there are simpler solutions: stamping out the bizarre trade in Tiger body parts by really going after the customers as well as the poachers and supply chain.