[Taxacom] when is a common species critically endangered?

[Stephen Thorpe]

It doesn't necessarily lead to "twisted logic". If you were to take a "God's eye view" of the Earth, then you might have a hard time retaining such concepts as ethics/morality, etc. One animal gets killed by another ... big deal! One human gets killed by another ... BIG DEAL! The fact that we are humans cannot be ignored ...
 
Stephen

From: Zack Murrell <murrellze at appstate.edu>
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu 
Sent: Thursday, 28 June 2012 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] when is a common species critically endangered?

Mark,

I don't think this is a naive question.  Our speciocentricism leads us to
categorize things as crops, invasives, weeds, natives and non-natives. Species have been moving across the planet since life began, yet we view
Homo sapiens migrations, along with those co-migrating species, as something
different.  I suspect this leads to all sorts of twisted logic in how we
view conservation, migrations and distributions of species.

Zack

Zack Murrell
Associate Professor and Curator of the Herbarium
Director, SouthEast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections (SERNEC)
Department of Biology
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608

On 6/26/2012 10:29 PM, Mark Wilden wrote:
> This is no doubt an incredibly naive question, but how long will it
> take before humans and their artifacts are considered part of
> "nature"?
>
> ///ark
>
> Mark Wilden
> Web Applications Developer
> California Academy of Sciences
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