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Well that’s just humancentrism. The meadow delivers value to me while the desert does not. And most environmental policy is about preserving the environment for
Well that’s just humancentrism. The meadow delivers value to me while the desert does not. And most environmental policy is about preserving the environment for humans — after all, if we stumble into population collapse the rest of the world’s species will celebrate.
I mean, it's not like the Saharan Desert does anything useful, like feed nutrients (via dust storms that blow across the Atlantic) to the Amazon Rainforest that is the lungs of the world.
It will do that with a few hundred square miles of solar panels.
Not to nitpick, just to inform, but oceanic plankton produces more oxygen than all tropical rainforests combined. In fact, Prochlorococcus alone does more for our biosphere than rainforests.
A lot of species would collapse with humans.