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*Then I got thinking, why is it not natural? People use the word natural all the time, when it comes to food that particularly gets me, but that's another topic. If one species starts wiping out another species and they become extinct as a result, is that natural? If the impact of species like lions, sharks etc. on an ecosystem is natural, why is man's impact not natural? We're animals at the end of the day. We're just another species that will live for a tiny period on this planet like all the other species that have lived and died out beforehand.
*Well, there is the can of worms called morality and consciousness which makes us different from all other animals. Then there is the fact that the depredations under discussion are generally the result not of humanity as a whole but of a relatively few individuals which is not the case with lions and sharks and so on. As far as I am aware there is precious little evidence of caribous, for example, killing for profit or of owls, impoverished by an unjust economic system that exists to serve the interest of a few rich owls, turning to poaching in order to survive. Nor, I am pretty confident, are any animals except humans driving other animals to extinction because they believe, as a result of pervasive superstitions whose continued existence is promoted for reasons of personal self-agrandissement or money-making or as a method of wider social control by a few individuals, that eating powdered horn or pickled penises will cure their acne or enhance their fertility.