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jeffrosoccer6
at Thu Oct 8 02:36:41 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jeffrosoccer6 ]
Wow. I haven't checked back here in a while and did not realize how heated everything was getting.
Funny thing though, I do remember hearing about the pythons being a hoax a few years back. I also don't like how people generalize scientists as all being wrong... that just doesn't make a bit of sense to me.
The way I have been seeing it is that yes the government is using fear tactics with the media, but its kind of like doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. There is a huge problem with burmese pythons, that is a fact, and for someone to say we should let the wild populations of native species go extinct is silly. Most people are not going to get riled up over an endangered species so instead the media reports every accident of a snake harming someone.
I can relate this to a problem here in Louisiana, my teacher used this analogy... We are losing the wetlands at an alarming rate, partly from human causes, but the federal government isn't going to give us money because not enough people care in the country. If we were to suddenly report that Louisiana will have a shrimp shortage because of wetland loss then people will probably care more, even if that is only a small part of the bigger problem.
Back to snakes.
The Barkers may be experts on the captive care of pythons but they are not ecologists and do not understand the relationships between species the same way someone with a degree does.
Mike does sound like he knows what he is talking about, just from the few posts I have read. Everyone has some bias but sometimes people should step back and look at how our actions are going to affect us later on. Biodiversity is important to the stability of entire ecosystems and it is not a good thing to just let species die off because you want a new morph of python.
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RE: More... - jeffrosoccer6, Thu Oct 8 02:36:41 2009