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Conservation of nature is something I care a lot about. But isn’t this the natural process playing out? A plant is evolutionarily fit to survive this desert. I
by obblekk 3y ago
Conservation of nature is something I care a lot about.
But isn’t this the natural process playing out? A plant is evolutionarily fit to survive this desert. It is introduced randomly by an animal. It prospers and colonized the otherwise inhabitable area.
In the process, moisture is retained in soil (sand), nitrogen fixing bacteria enter, and the next most fit species also is able to enter.
This repeats a few thousand times and the desert starts to bloom.
At what point is conservation of the environmental process the better option compared to conservation of the environment in a human powered stasis?
- jdiez17 3y agoIt seems people are "for" conservation of nature, only insofar as it fits their aesthetic preferences.
- lbriner 3y agoThat's what I was just thinking, same as people complaining in Scotland about heather and bracken. If you don't do anything proactive to plant native spieces and help them establish then you have to let nature do it however it wants to and it won't always look nice. You also have to be much more strict about grazing. The problem with certain parts of the world is that you can sell all the land off to whomever and they can do whatever they want with it. 2M acres of grassland all eaten bare by sheep or cows? Yeah, no problem mate.