erleichda29 t1_is0tpz1 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 2:08 PM

Reply to comment by Leather-Mirror-86 in Endangered gray wolves are being poisoned in Washington state, officials say by zsreport

Wow. And you are espousing the "everything belongs to humans" theory created by religion. We are not the owners or the rulers of the planet. It's sad that you don't understand that.

Leather-Mirror-86 t1_is0uoqf wrote on October 12, 2022 at 2:15 PM

I didn't say anything about religion. Try a Google search on the pristine myth and do some reading before commenting.

erleichda29 t1_is0yylz wrote on October 12, 2022 at 2:45 PM

I know what the pristine myth is. Maybe you should do some reading if you aren't aware of the source for beliefs about human superiority.

Leather-Mirror-86 t1_is2n4op wrote on October 12, 2022 at 9:15 PM

I didn't say anything about human superiority, either. There's no denying that humans have had an impact on the landscape, but it's utterly foolish to believe that we can just expect conditions to get better by doing nothing at all. We've made the mess ourselves, and we can't return to a mythical time where humans didn't have an impact, because those environmental and climatic conditions no longer exist. It is our ethical obligation to the land to manage it to the best of our ability, using scientific data as our foundation. Suggestions otherwise are of no use to those of us actively engaged in the work.