{"id":2672,"date":"2012-06-02T23:52:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T03:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2012-06-04T00:37:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T04:37:10","slug":"argument-agains-eliminating-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2012\/06\/02\/argument-agains-eliminating-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Against eliminating species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read this passage written by Harley Shaw, in the 2002 introduction for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Wolf in the Southwest, the Making of an Endangered Species<\/span>\u00a0 (1983) by David E. Brown. Shaw\u00a0 is a research biologist specializing in mountain lions\u00a0 in SW NM:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Eliminating species leads to intellectual dead ends. Once a creature is gone, we no longer have reason to understand it. Our world becomes simpler, and our minds simpler with it. Problem-solving is an open-ended activity. Interacting with a species provides a means for intellectual growth, eliminating it simply leaves another blank spot \u2013 on earth and in our minds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read this passage written by Harley Shaw, in the 2002 introduction for The Wolf in the Southwest, the Making of an Endangered Species\u00a0 (1983) by David E. Brown. Shaw\u00a0 is a research biologist specializing in mountain lions\u00a0 in SW NM: &#8220;Eliminating species leads to intellectual dead ends. Once a creature is gone, we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2012\/06\/02\/argument-agains-eliminating-species\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Against eliminating species&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}