More Polar Bears- Less Polar Bears- who is counting them?

The David Suziki Institute tell us there are less

Tha Nunavuk Polar Bear Counting Club, reports - lots of polar bears.
New toll free line 1-877- 975 4901, will get you the right information, from the Iqaluit-based organization, that sets up Inuit-guided sports hunters, to come in and spend lots of money. ($3,000,000) per year.

Their numbers appear to have doubled since the 60's, but we've got to save them because of global warming and Algore. Ooooookaaaaay.

I know this is a minority view, but personally I couldn't care less if the polar bear went extinct. I'm in favor of saving species when they're ecologically or scientifically important, but I really don't see the point in preserving species "just because".

In fact, preserving a species which cannot live by itself anymore is more likely to upset the ecosystem than to maintain its prosperity. Keep in mind that groups do not have consciousness. All individuals within any given species will die with a certainty of 100%, and whether there are still some remaining with certain physical properties seems pretty much irrelevant, granted that those physical characteristics don't make that organism important to the overall ecosystem.

Also inevitably there has to be some defining line on which species to save and which not to save. Insects come in literally millions of species, hundreds if not thousands discovered every year, and hundreds if not thousands going extinct every year. But who cares? Virtually no one! And for good reason; because it's not a real problem. It's just the nature of life in a changing world.

For as long as the world will change, species will evolve, and that means some of them die out. To stop that process, which is the extreme of preservation, is to stop evolution and therefore sidestepping the single most important natural process ever; evolution. Species need to evolve, damn it. It's not a choice.

This may sound awfully cruel if one believes that groups or species are living creatures by themselves, but they're not. They're collections of living creatures with the same overall properties. Species do not die, only the individuals within them.

Last but not least, humans are fairly obviously (I would think) the most important species of them all, because we still have the opportunity to colonize other planets, meaning we're the only species yet to have a real possibility of surviving nothing less than the death of our entire planet... heck, even our entire solar system! That's not just daydreaming, those are very real possibilities... in fact it's almost safe to say they're inevitable, provided that humanity doesn't extinguish itself before that reality is allowed to evolve.

So for the preservation of life itself, we must first preserve the human. Animal rights will have to wait until we've gotten this whole human rights thing straightened out.

I dunno, am I missing something, or am I just evil or what?

heighig- I agree with you, besides there is no threat to the polar bear that we can do anything about, other than possibly stop hunting them!

i wish David Suzuki would have done something about the dinosaurs/

David Suziki should be sent back to the Phillipines!

to the jerkoff. You know who you are.