Hell, even my old neighborhood when we lived in the NW apartments in Magnolia -- the most geographically isolated neighborhood in the city for wildlife besides Harbor Island -- had cougars, bears, and coyotes in the past couple years.
This line of thinking and accompanying anecdotes are often used as an excuse or justification of sprawl and over-consumptive expansion. We need to protect wild places and support conservation, not to embrace the "anthropocene" as just another "new possibilit[y] to some form of life."
Yes, save the urban coyotes! They keep the stray cats in check.
What @3 said. I'm not very optimistic about the next few centuries for humanity (resource wars and population crash seem all too possible and nasty) but a million years from now, I think you'll see pretty much the same animal orders, and in most cases families, that we see today. Many species will come and go, regardless of humans.
We need to fight for the state of our great-grandchildren, not for "all life on earth." The hyperbole of killing the planet is ridiculous. We couldn't do it if we tried, although we could certainly make the place almost unrecognizable!
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Here is a picture of it as seen from the windshield of my car:
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I'm pretty sure that's actually your cars hood ornament.
What @3 said. I'm not very optimistic about the next few centuries for humanity (resource wars and population crash seem all too possible and nasty) but a million years from now, I think you'll see pretty much the same animal orders, and in most cases families, that we see today. Many species will come and go, regardless of humans.
We need to fight for the state of our great-grandchildren, not for "all life on earth." The hyperbole of killing the planet is ridiculous. We couldn't do it if we tried, although we could certainly make the place almost unrecognizable!