Species Endangered by Preservation
There is no real law of unintended consequences. But there might as well be. Whenever people choose acts based on some desired result, they will not only get the desired result (maybe, that is) but also much more. They may or may not foresee it. They may or may not want it. But there will be a consequence, actually many, which they did not intend.
Some unintended consequences are happy, like telling a joke and stumbling into an extra pun in the process. Some seem malevolent, like running tests to avoid potential meltdowns at Chernobyl only to bring about the meltdown through the test. (Yes, that’s how it happened.) Some are simply ironic, often resulting in the opposite of what was intended, or an intensification of the problem which was supposed to be solved.
Such is the case with animal protection. In May U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced that polar bears were being added to the list of endangered species. Never mind that Russian, Alaskan, and Canadian populations Read the rest of this entry »
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