Saving Species

If oil is found in the Arctic Circle, of such quantity as to make thirty dollars a barrel standard, who cares about Polar Bears?

The Woolly Mammoth, Saber Toothed Tiger, and Dodo were hunted to extinction by people who didn't much know or care about "ecology".

Pristine forests were cleared for settlement, not today, but for thousands of years; simply because people dominate the Earth in all conjugations of the term.

None of us think it desirable to leave our homes and live as do the eco-friendly tribes who inhabit the Amazon basin. In fact, moving from a car to a bicycle, which seems absolutely brilliant for most of our cities, has actually gone the other way in China.

The mentally is and will be;

'If you living in America can drive a big jeep and have your homes heated and air conditioned why can't we, living in the third world, have that too?'

The concept of the Western World as Prime polluters is being overtaken by that of developing nations.

Weigh untouched beaches surrounded by coral reefs with the money a five star hotel can bring into the economy.

Match subsistence farming by a forgotten tribe to a huge factory turning out products which are in demand. Compare ancient structures to the electricity a dam can produce. And hear the voices of the inhabitants saying;

'If you living in America can drive a big jeep and have your homes heated and air conditioned why can't we, living in the third world, have that too?' Which returns to the Polar Bear. Although it sounds like rantings of a mad scientist, it is time to appreciate that the only way to preserve certain species would be to have them as pets.

Just as dogs have been bred for thousands of years to gain particular traits, the use of genetic manipulation can, in a few years, reduce a standard Polar Bear to the size of a Bull dog with it's juvenile traits kept intact.

As domestic dogs to retain many juvenile traits which make them more desirable to their owners, if Knute, (that little Polar Bear who was raised by the Keeper) could have stayed a cute little baby polar bear, how many thousands of people would not have lined up to have one as a pet?

In this way, a species would be preserved. Or we can rely on people paying eighty dollars a barrel for oil so that polar bears can hunt seals.?