https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/otters-show-how-predators-can-blunt-climate-damage/
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/we-should-embrace-scavengers-and-predators/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0421-2
The above articles demonstrate the veracity of:
1. Barry Commoner's 1971 book, The Closing Circle, especially his First Law of Ecology - "Everything is connected to everything else."; and,
2. the complexity and value to humanity of ecosystems are equal to or greater than any complexity/value of the technological world.
[NOTE: In the mid-1970's, I used The Closing Circle as the textbook for an Advanced Ecology course I taught at South Kitsap High School (one of the top high schools in the State of Washington at that time). I found it then, and still do today, to be one of the most informative books ever written on Human Ecology in particular, and Ecology in general. It was written for lay people, and in my opinion, should be required reading for every student everywhere.]
Professor Commoner's Four Laws of Ecology---
1. Everything is connected to everything else.
2. Everything must go somewhere.
3. Nature knows best.
4. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Currently we are in a socio-eco-econ Crisis which threatens the very existence of organized human society. Many researchers are working hard to find and broadcast solutions to said crisis. Too many politicians are not doing enough to implement those solutions. They talk about it a lot, but do little or nothing. The same might be said of lay people. That must change, and soon.
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Not only my opinion. Be Well
