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Wait, how is that a useful way to think about this at all? Right now we are talking about six fish. In what way are they not at issue?
by MBlume 12y ago
Wait, how is that a useful way to think about this at all? Right now we are talking about six fish. In what way are they not at issue?
- lr 12y agoI don't know, they might hold the cure to cancer... We destroy our ecosystem at our own peril. In this time of drought, this seems like a no-brainer, but I would rather spend water on fish in an actual river (where tens of millions of other creatures live) than for cattle or almonds.
- imh 12y agoThinking about these actions in aggregate, it can be about losing X gazillion gallons of water to save a species, instead of 4B for 6 fish. I think the point is that these actions add up.
- thrownaway2424 12y agoThink of it as the cost of these six and all future fish of this species.
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- jfeighery 12y agoIn addition to the difficulty of measuring the cost of losing an entire species forever, as others have pointed out, the question is really do we want this to be an actual functioning river? The more sensitive species are indicators that something has been fundamental changed in the ecosystem.