Nature preservation isn’t about being virtuous or “good”.
Maintaining the greatest possible diversity is how you give a biosphere the best chance to continue adapting, instead of catastrophically collapsing. In case of a volcano erupton, for one.
As an a example, having more than one insect species that pollinates, means losing some of them won’t mean large-scale crop failures. But the fact that there aren’t infinite of them means we could conceivably, run out of them.
No-one who takes minimizing human impact on the biosphere seriusly, is doing it out of a mere desire to not be “evil”.
It’s critical simply in terms of our own self-preservation. The more species exist, the more ways there are for the biosphere to continue functioning.
Which we kind of need it to do in order to eat and breathe.
Nature preservation isn’t about being virtuous or “good”.
Maintaining the greatest possible diversity is how you give a biosphere the best chance to continue adapting, instead of catastrophically collapsing. In case of a volcano erupton, for one.
As an a example, having more than one insect species that pollinates, means losing some of them won’t mean large-scale crop failures. But the fact that there aren’t infinite of them means we could conceivably, run out of them.
No-one who takes minimizing human impact on the biosphere seriusly, is doing it out of a mere desire to not be “evil”.
It’s critical simply in terms of our own self-preservation. The more species exist, the more ways there are for the biosphere to continue functioning.
Which we kind of need it to do in order to eat and breathe.
A guy like that isn’t going to understand any word over 3 syllables. You’re gonna have to use shorter, dumb-friendly words.