/lit/ - Literature

I don't believe there's any sense in trying to preserve the ecology, it's already been irreversibility fucked on a level not seen since probably 65 mya. People talk about 'invasive species' and how they destroy the native biodiversity, but that's a pandora's box that we opened already, the native ecosystems of the Americas for example have been irrevocably fucked by shit like earthworms and introduced european birds and rodents. All of the pacific, polynesian and micronesian islands, as well as new zealand and australia to some extent, have been completely fucked by pigs and rats, entire microcosmic ecosystems that existed in isolation for centuries destroyed forever. Keep in mind this level of species exchange hasn't really happened since a few million years ago when north and south america collided, and even that probably wasn't anywhere near as disastrous as the current interchange, though I admit I'm not super well read on it. And then you have the utter annihilation of forests and natural habitat, to be replaced by massive agricultural monoculture croplands, the plastic in every single part of the marine environment, ocean acidification, insect collapse, greenhouse gasses, overfishing, and all the species that have already gone extinct or had their populations reduced to non sustainable levels. This chart gives you a good idea of what's been going on, we've almost completely changed the landscape over to human civilization and the meat animals that support it, massacring wildlife and chasing it to isolated refuges, and poisoning the survivors with our industrial byproducts. There's really no saving it now. The wild animals that will survive and do somewhat well are species like pigeons, crows, rats, roaches, and other species that can survive on the fringes of human civilization. Economic incentives will take care of everything else.
My point is, people don't really realize how truly fucked things are, it's only going to continue to get worse for the foreseeable future, and there's absolutely nothing any of us can do about it.