Everyone wants a clean environment, along with verdant forests, clean lakes and rivers, with abundant fishing.
Everyone also wants to protect living species to see that they continue to exist. We know that many fall by the wayside for various reasons, some having to do with human existence. After all, we must compete for living space.
Also: Everyone needs jobs for those who want to work. And they want cheap and plentiful food.
Somewhere, there has to be a distinction made, about which take preference.
An example: Because of fish we do not eat, and which are insignificant except to botanists who study them, 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 prices.
The only ones happy about this human disaster are environmentalists. They feel they have accomplished their objectives of saving for posterity that tiny, inedible fish.
Humans and the economy are the afterthought.
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