No, really...what is an ecosystem? Give it some thought, and then consider that if one species is removed from an ecosystem, is there any real impact?
Darwin said, in closing the 'Origin of Species',
"It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us."As Edward O. Wilson points out in his book, 'Half-Earth; Our Planet's Fight for Life', those who believe that we can press living communities of species to extinction, and then expect them to be replaced by invasive species, delivered by the hands of humanity, to form healthy new ecosystems...those Anthropocene sponsors are both misguided and misinformed...for what took millions of years to achieve balance cannot be replaced by makeshift, and clearly unplanned transition to our human-centered world.
Through Global Warming, habitat destruction, the runaway growth of human population, resource consumption, over-harvesting of animals of all kinds for our use, and pollution...we are changing the planet, and we need to stop this lunacy now, or man very well may not be included in the ecosystems of the future.
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