Does anyone think that the extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin is unacceptable?

Question

Does anyone else but me think that the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin is unacceptable, and that we as sentient beings must curtail this murderous enterprise of killing things for more farming areas when we have perfectly good ones already? We ve already killed about 3 species of big cat!

Answer 1

Yes, I believe it is unacceptable that scientists haven't taken into captivity Yangtze river dolphin's before they've gone extinct. However, calling the act of supplying the greater demand for food and energy a "murderous enterprise of killing things" seems nonsensical and borderline naive. No one goes around and purposely tries to make specie's extinct, it's just an unfortunate effect, which could have been prevented by getting a few into captivity.

The Yangtze river fell victim to over-fishing and excessive damming to support the growing Chinese population. One of the drawbacks is the unfortunate extinction of the River Dolphin.

Answer 2

If they are already extinct, I guess we have to accept it.

Answer 3

Its a bit too late to start talking about river dolphins they've gone that's it.

Answer 4

it's not great, but if you have a small, isolated species, with limited range, it's bound to happen.

even if it wasn't caused by humans, it would have been an issue with something else.

Answer 5

I think like you in saying its unacceptable, and so is any other animal they like to dispose of. Every Country in the World  is doing the same thing, and that is killing every species they encounter. The human beings of this Planet are destroying it, and we in this Country are no accept ion, as we seem to think that all the green land has to be covered in concrete, and they are destroying trees shrubs, in their wake. There are no answers to this havoc that big business and the like, are doing to the Planet, and we will not be around long enough to see the end results. We are not leaving much hope for future generations.

Answer 6

yes, wholly unacceptable. The Chinese government were more interested in building a dam than protecting their wildlife so now they are facing unwelcome press coverage into their too rapid expansion plan.

Answer 7

Human progress and industrializing does put a heavy burden on all species of our planet. And sadly the Yangtze River dolphin is another casualty  of China's economic success and our  desire  in the West for cheap goods.

Answer 8

I think it is awful but I also think China is a country that is struggling with a massive population and so maybe it's got other things on it's mind - after all Europe did a huge amount of environmental damage during the Industrial Revolution when we were struggling to become an industrialised economy rather than a rural economy, we did it and now we criticise other countries like China and India when they are only doing what we did a couple of hundred years ago.

Answer 9

Yes it is unacceptable, but with the way we humans are, its unavoidable. Yes China is destroying a lot of their culture, history and wildlife, but were we so  different 100-150 years ago? Of course not. England isn't such as big a country so we went abroad and killed thousands of animals where ever we could for 'sport'. The industrial revolution polluted the atmosphere like nothing before, and the victorians did a pretty good job of tearing down old architecture because they didn't like it and it wasn't in fashion.

Things are getting killed for more farming areas because we have an insatiable need for meat and plenty of cheap food at our disposal. Of course the fact that an awful lot of it is then thrown away when it is perfectly good to eat doesn't bother many of us.

Humans are pretty much all the same. We have only been on the earth for a short amount of time but we have used and abused for our own benefit as we see ourselves as being the most important thing on earth. Even now when we know what damage we are doing very few of us actually bother ourselves with it or try to make things better. I know I certainly don't.

Answer 10

well YES!!!!! i may be meen but i really like dolphins!!! i don't think that any animals should be killed. GOT IT!!!

Answer 11

Absolutely! This should stop as soon as possible! But how? What can we do? It's tragic:(

And why the h**l should we accept it?? If we accept it, it's just going to continue, another species will become extinct next month, next year, and all we say is "oh well, let's accept it"

Now tell me if humans were about to become extinct would you say you accept it? I doubt it.

The we-don't-care type of attitude is typical to most of the globe's population unfortunately, and all that's important is money money money. I wonder what people will do with all their money in their grave.

Also, I cannot see why humans are so d**n proud of themselves and what makes them think they are superior to animals. They have no right to kill anything just because it's an animal. They think they know everything, when they don't even know 10 percent of it. Ignorance and carelessness is killing everything around us. O happy days!

Answer 12

Unfortunatly we have to accept it - extinct is gone forever.

It is unacceptable that the human race seems incapable of living within the carrying capacity of their environment; so the weaker members of the gaia community will suffer.

A paternalistic "lets help the poor fluffy creatures/starving babies" does not solve the root problems of increasing numbers of humans living unsustainable lifestyles.

Hopefully incidents like a significant extinction will help people wake up to the issues.

A site with some good techniuqes to help is

http://www.greatturningtimes.org

"Many great tales of adventure begin with the appearance of an overwhelming threat. But what makes these stories compelling is the way the central characters rise to the challenge and respond. The same can be true with our lives too. If we succeed in making the changes required in our times, future generations may look back on the early twenty-first century and talk of it as the time of The Great Turning. This is a story that each of us can become part of. It involves the radical transformation of our society and way of living, so that we move away from a lifestyle and economy that are destroying our world. Joanna Macy, the US author and activist who coined the term The Great Turning, identifies three main dimensions.

-    Campaigns and acts of protest to counter the destruction

-     Building positive alternatives and sustainable ways of living

-     A deeper shift in values, thinking and culture to support this

http://www.joannamacy.net

Answer 13

It is unacceptable and it is a direct result of Chinese people living in the area that it lives that caused them to be extinct!

I also believe on a totally unrelated not that the fact from just down the road you can't see the Beijing Olympic stadium because of air pollution!

Answer 14

Happens all the time in life.One goes another comes.

Answer 15

yeah

Answer 16

what does my head in is that China is following our lead when we have absolutley no idea where we are going. China, whose ancient philosophies preach harmony with nature and yet they are doing exactly what we did during our own industrial revolution. I thought there may have been something more to the chinese government but they are just as bad as the americans... very little has been made of the fact that the Nepalese are being slowly wiped out by the chinese. I feel sick that a developing nation has not chosen to try and develop a sustainable system of advancement...if they had the dolphin may well have been still with us.

Answer 17

I agree with you, that it is unacceptable!

Answer 18

Of course this is beyond unacceptable. The first species other than insects to be made extinct by humans for 60 years. Are we progressing as a race? This proves that we're not. This shames me as a human and disgusts me. I only hope that in years to come we may find them again, because this has happened with several long supposidly extinct species; though I doubt it because this river is no longer a river but a massive stagnant sewer of chemicals that can't support any life.

Yet another Chinese atrocity.