Koala Gardens Patrons’ Top 10 Reasons to Save Koalas – Reason 8
Do we have the right to wipe out a species?
Humans are self-aware in a way animals simply are not. Certainly some species have a degree of self-awareness. However, not to the point where they understand that they can impact their environment, other species and even the entire world.
This understanding could be called “introspection”. Animals cannot do this. They cannot examine and then describe their own thoughts and feelings to another animal.
The use of complex language allows humans to build their knowledge on the knowledge of previous generations. This cannot be achieved by animals. Yes, a mother koala can teach her young to live in and move through the treetops allowing her young to build on the knowledge of their mother. This is not, however, compounding and increasing knowledge generation after generation. For example, think of how mathematics and science builds on knowledge of previous pioneers.
Core human beliefs
Humans in many parts of the world are raised to believe that they are the reason that this world exists. This is the core of the belief that we have the right to make any changes we desire to anything. There is a culture of applauding new research and inventions with little or no regard to the harm applications of the invention could result in. We don’t seem to think beyond the ‘cool new toy/idea’.
This is where humans truly differ from animals. We can take something that is developed by one human and can expand on it to do something else. This is not the same as one primate watching its mother take a little stick and poke it into something to pick it up and eat it and then figure out that it could use it to eat something else.
What separates humans from animals is decisions we make, even when we know that something is harmful. If there is a profit, which may be money or power, many humans will choose to ignore that harm and proceed anyway. Perhaps the most quoted example of this is the discovery of the atom which led to the development of atomic weapons.
Let’s not forget the discovery of plastic, which has led to the creation of a massive quantity of waste material that we can’t get rid of, causing pollution on land and in the oceans. We can all think of other examples.
Just because we can – do we as humans have the right to?
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