Thanks for posting this! This should really be a bigger discussion in conservation.
Heather Browning’s reflection on their being some other reason we value biodiversity resonates.
McMahan’s view is my own: that drawn out suffering from predation is wrong, but that ongoing predation is preferable to removing predation. Although I don’t agree with their reasoning from uncertainty argument for keeping predation. Instead I have a jumbled mix of valuing autonomy, other lifestyles, thinking death by not-predation is worse, and valuing natural processes and complexity. This wavers against the benefits of a gardened wilderness because the potential for improvement is large and wide, but far off and requires high effort.
I need to think about these topics more. Great post.
Thanks for posting this! This should really be a bigger discussion in conservation.
Heather Browning’s reflection on their being some other reason we value biodiversity resonates.
McMahan’s view is my own: that drawn out suffering from predation is wrong, but that ongoing predation is preferable to removing predation. Although I don’t agree with their reasoning from uncertainty argument for keeping predation. Instead I have a jumbled mix of valuing autonomy, other lifestyles, thinking death by not-predation is worse, and valuing natural processes and complexity. This wavers against the benefits of a gardened wilderness because the potential for improvement is large and wide, but far off and requires high effort.
I need to think about these topics more. Great post.