@uberbatman Yes, as @A_Beaverhausen has been saying, the damage is done. It doesn’t matter that we are trying to preserve certain species. We can try to preserve all species, but it still won’t matter. It’s reached a point where there is really no actual nature left. (OK, maybe some pockets) We see that a species is going extinct, so we try to save it. Meanwhile, another species is going extinct, but to save one, we have to let the other die off. Is nature running the show, or are we?
Many years ago, we had our chance to stop and let nature take its own course again, but we didn’t realize that we were messing it up so bad, so we kept going. We have spread so far and wide that we have a hand in whatever lives and dies from now on. In a way, we are now the gods of nature. We can’t save everything, nor do we want to. Nature is trying its hardest to fight back at us, but we keep interfering. Nature is going to keep using survival of the fittest to keep the most fit species around, and we can’t stop that. If we just let it be, then we won’t have any more pandas, tiger salamanders, fairy shrimp, etc., but we will have beavers, wolves, and caribou. Guess what? We will also have a crapload of new species yet to evolve.
Maybe we won’t be here either, but so what? If it’s our fault, then maybe that’s for the better. At least we can’t mess it up anymore. There have been numerous mass die-offs in the past, and life always comes back. We may wipe out the current system, including ourselves, but aren’t going to destroy the world. The earth is a big boy and can take care of itself. We’re just a bad case of fleas, and we’ll clear up eventually.