Everyone wants a clean environment. Everyone wants verdant forests, clean lakes and rivers, with abundant fishing. Everyone wants to protect species to see that they continue to exist.
We know that many fall by the wayside due to varying reasons, some having to do with human existence. After all, we must compete for living space.
Also: Everyone wants jobs for those who want to work. Everyone wants cheap and plentiful food.
Somewhere, there has to be a distinction made by us, about which of the above takes preference.
An example: Right now, because of fish we do not eat and which are insignificant except to botanists who study them as part of their curricula, we are suffering a severe water shortage and drought in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The shortage has produced conditions which sharply reduce fruit production, and raise fruit prices.
The only ones happy about this human disaster are environmentalists in the U.S. government. They feel they have accomplished their objectives of saving that tiny inedible fish for posterity.
Humans? I guess they don’t count.
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