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ned wrote:

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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As the main point of introducing them (ie, lynx) would be to
endanger other
species, that would rather rule them out!

Surely we have learned the lesson that you don't solve a known
unmanageable problem by introducing an unknown unmanageable problem.

This argument is one of the more egregious pieces of propaganda used
by the destructivist lobby, and we have seen its effects for a long
time. It is not, of course, applied to the introduction of Monsanto
species, the imposition of extreme laws and restrictions to 'control'
a problem introduced by incompetence and so on.

In this case, neither problem is unknown, and the problem of lynx
overpopulation is known to be manageable.

There is also the point that, when facing near-certain disaster, the
very worst decision is to do nothing.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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