Quote: "This really doesn't warrant a reply, but really? You think we should leave the survival of our race to ignorance and unfounded faith?"
As my current employment is in the realm of marine mammal conservation, I personally don't believe that my view is ignorance, no.
You see, the largest supposed contributor to strandings is noise. Yet while this is theorised, there is as much data against this theory as there is for it. Ocean noise probably does cause strandings or other strange behaviour, but it may also be overfishing causing them to forage for food in more dangerous areas.
The sad thing is that so little money is spent on actually finding this stuff as opposed to engineering an iPhone with an extra inch of screen, that it's quite tragic.
Quote: "Yeah sure, just like nature solved the Chernobyl incident:"
Even though the area is now thriving with returning life in the wake of the incident, cited by several people as an example of a post-apocalyptic setting. sure, the trees grew with their roots in the air for a few years, while others had no back, but now they are growing healthily.
Quote: "We have already wiped out many species.. Dodo, Woolly Mammoth, Neanderthal Man."
Oh come on. At least pick ones we genuinely are killing, like Rhinos, Elephants and Yangtze Dolphins.
The woolly mammoth absolutely did not die out due to the world warming back up again, and the Dodo was killed by rats, admittedly carried by our ships. Neanderthal man was probably partially killed off by us, but also didn't adapt to the world due to several theorised reasons. There's also that cannibalism thing that a few scientists have drawn conclusions from their remains for that.
Besides, humans are generally terrible at getting along. We're born to kill other stuff, that's pretty much what got us where we are today. Technology is a force for evolution unlike anything else in nature's arsenal. We can adapt in years or decades what would normally take millenia for another animal.
So I personally believe that we'll sort it out in due time. For example, Seismic Guns used to create sonic pulses that map seabeds are hypothesised to be a major cause of cetacean disruption in operations. There is a lot of money in making these guns both quieter and making them have a more focused beam. Not just because of the environmental concerns, but also due to the better resolution and efficiency this would offer.
Besides, a lot of people are still driving Priuses. I don't know what's worse: the damage they do to the environment with them, or the overwhelming smugness they have in believing they're doing far more good than anyone else they know.
