Why didn't 19th century europeans understand that introducing foreign animals for sport would have disastrous effects on the environment; were they retarded?
Why didn't 19th century europeans understand that introducing foreign animals for sport would have disastrous effects on the environment; were th...
>an animal rafts across an ocean on a bunch of tree branches broken away by storm
>good
>an animal is brought across an ocean by bunch of weird apes
>bad
Humanity won't be around forever, so just enjoy the ride and wonder what the rat civilization that will rise in 20 million years will think about when they realize that there was a major transfer of species across the globe only a couple dozen million years earlier.
they still felt like the world had infinite resources and couldn't fathom the idea of actually destroying the environment from endlessly taking and taking
>NOOOO not the heckin pigeons
Their animals made more money and were funner to shoot. Simple as.
>implying you wouldn't play God if you were able to
Imagine being single handedly resposible for permanently changing an ecosystem, it must be such a power high. I can understand why that Stewart Smith guy kept smuggling foreign fish into New Zealand.
I would play a protective God, not a retarded destructive one.
who cares
why the fuck would you smash the egg?
>on request from a ~~*merchant*~~
of course
>implying our glorious lord would toil to evolve a single species for millions of years and then just let it go extinct
repent
extinction is a myth
They didn't cared about it at all, they probably knew that it was wrong but they did it anyway. I remember reading somewhere that the thylacine was seen as an inferior species by europeans settlers, they thought that the red fox was superior to it.
Well, if it went extinct at least partially due to being outcompeted by the red fox, wouldn't that mean that 19th century Euro settlers were correct when it came to it being the inferior animal out of the two?
Red foxes didn’t outcompete thylacines. They never even got established properly in Tasmania because the devils mog them to hell and back
People in the 19th century thought flies were spontaneously created from rotting meat. They didn't understand shit about nature.
>living in an ecosystem that can't handle one foxy lad and his couple million pals
They should had introduced more Old World species to Australia. Egg laying mammals are a crime against the God and Marsupials ain't much better.
Extinction was a pretty new idea at the time
They weren’t done evolving until they began abandoning garden gnome religions please understand
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