Today's extremely spicy take is that endangered species protection is a very expensive national vanity project
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Nothing much eats the vernal pool fairy shrimp & it doesn't eat much of anything, either. It just sorta hangs out in the deceptively deep gross puddles that you accidentally ruin your shoes in. We've set aside 13,000 acres specifically for this shrimp. https://www.fws.gov/cno/es/images/Graphics/VPFS_5-yr%20review%20CNO%20FINAL%2027Sept07.pdf …
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These are the recommendations from the 76-page conservation report on this shrimp linked above. I have no idea how much all of this would cost, but you'll hopefully forgive me for thinking that maybe we should just... notpic.twitter.com/Xy6D454Z68
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Ugh, pick on someone your own size
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If you're actually suggesting I pick on humans and leave the poor shrimp alone... no. Obviously.
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When stuff like this is deployed as an excuse to delay or prevent important civilizational stuff (urban housing, telescopes, etc) from getting built, I tend to agree with you. When it's a matter of paying a bunch of biology postdocs to learn about...
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a particular ecology, it doesn't seem like that bad a use of money. Particularly if you believe that we're about to see the golden age of biology research, and a lot of biomechanical processes--some only used by a couple obscure species--can prove...
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Well, you need to find employment for all those fairy shrimp experts out there.https://youtu.be/qXD9HnrNrvk
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What about cute or majestic mammals in the same dire situation. Still a question?
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I think preservation efforts are in large part driven by some kind of FOMO: just because a particular specie doesn't really offer us anything of value now, it might in the future (eg: penicillium before 1928)
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Honestly I think we should probably *both* worry less about the specific mantis shrimp, and *more* about the general case. Expand national wilderness areas and parks. Worry about megafauna rewilding.
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The Endangered Species Act is just a way for Government to take land and control us. They are used and abused on a regular basis. Godless Darwinists suddenly don’t believe in survival of the fittest when it comes to fairy shrimp & the Delta Smelt. Backfired big time in CA.
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