People are adaptable. Look at us, we live on mountaintops, in the darkest of jungles, the most arid deserts, and in homes made of snow. We eat SCORPIONS, okay? SCORPIONS!

As responsible creatures, capable of understanding what is right and what is wrong, if we see ourselves negatively effecting what is around us, we should make the correct decision to move ourselves to somewhere more appropriate, as animals, trees and the like cannot simply pack their backs and move if we cut down their home and start raising cattle.

Tell me why it is that any human being is going to belligerently spit in the face of conservation because of what THEY as a person have to lose, when something MUCH bigger than them, their accomplishments, their bank statement and their entire family, could be destroyed?

For example...

How hard is it to understand that if a tiny little species of smelt dies, the shitstorm gets kicked up? That when one little fish goes extinct, so does every other species in the ecosystem? That when that little fish disappears, the water system in which it once lived would become choked by algae, bacteria and all other sorts of single celled floaters?

The argument against the effort to save the Delta Smelt in California amounts to 'Moooooooom, but I want THAT toy, NOW!' Adolescent bitching and moaning about petty and immediate desires. No counter-argument to this specific conservation effort has hit a note other than 'What happens tomorrow doesn't concern me at all.' followed by chalking the extinction of the species up as 'Progress.' Toward what? Your extinction, dumbass. The picture is bigger than that!

Life is hard. Californians, you have to ration water now because IF YOU DON'T you're going to have a lot more trouble later trying to get your hands on it. You think water is inaccessible and expensive now? No one said it would be easy.

Furthermore, if you don't like animals having more say over the land than people, trying to back your ridiculous, short-sighted opinion by pulling things out of your ass, like saying the the farms effected 'feed the country' or that the Smelt has more than one threat facing it and we should just let it die out, makes you look like you're just saying anything that will back your argument, regardless of what you actually believe in. You can't expect people to believe you when you're such an obvious whore.

Biodiversity is something that needs to be preserved for humans to continue to exist. Life exists on a bigger playing field than the next year's gross income, or not being able to wash your car this month.