Comments on: UK plans to reintroduce insects into environment: should humans be running interference?

By: krissy

krissy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:04:26 +0000

were human beings. Weve been “messing” with nature atleast since the dawn of agriculture. Even native americans, stewards that they were still impacted the environment as does every choice a human being makes. We just have to think about long term consequences of our actions, but mass extinction cannot be an option for our future, as “natural” as that may be.

By: Gerard Vaughan

Gerard Vaughan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:10:33 +0000

“Running interference ?? – sorry ? you what ?

By: Gerard Vaughan

Gerard Vaughan — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:09:20 +0000

“…..it might just be going too far since it’s messing with the natural process of evolution and a changing environment”
Tell that to the fire brigade when they come to douse the house next door to YOU !

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By: Green Gal

Green Gal — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:48:51 +0000

Wow this raises some very interesting questions and debate. On the one hand, we don’t want to lose any more biodiversity than we already have/are going to with habitat devastation, etc. But on the other hand, our actions would be impacting a natural process, just as our detrimental actions in other parts of the world have caused species extinction/endangerment. Is it possible to understand all the effects that doing this will have on the ecosystems? Animals die off when they cannot be sustained by the environment or when something else is more “fit.” To try and stop this natural process could harm whichever animal was moving in to take its place…