I can see where that might make sense at first but, there are far too many people on the planet now to leave well enough alone and hope for the best, thinking nature will fend for itself and it'll all work out. Things are pretty out of whack and we keep stacking the deck in our species' favor.

Don't get me wrong - I'm rooting for us - but we have to start realizing we're Part of the whole, we're part of 'nature' and our survival depends on keeping the entire interdependent network of organisms in play. And if not, be pretty dang sure we're not pulling out an intergral piece of this house of cards.

I was watching that Ken Burns piece on national parks... If the government hadn't set aside the national parks and put federal protections in place, there'd be houses all along the grand canyon and the boundary waters in my state would be a giant resort with strip malls dotting every 10 miles....