Unintuitive conservation tactics to save endangered species and economies: Melanie Maguire at TEDxOU
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- Опубликовано: 18 фев 2014
- Melanie is passionate about using economics to find creative solutions to a variety of policy problems. While studying abroad in Peru, she experienced the stark disconnect between the solutions researchers propose and the realities of policy implementation, and work on her honors thesis project inspired her to share the creative environmental conservation solutions that contradict traditional paradigms. When she's not talking about economics, you can find her singing, tap dancing, or planning a trip around the world. Melanie is a senior economics major and plans to attend graduate school in order to prepare herself for a career in public policy analysis.
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What a rational and bright woman, people like these are the real hope. Good intentios without brains means little.
The most obvious way to provide a profit motive for conserving species is to have the natives domesticate them to some extent and sell or consume some of them when there is a particularly prolific breeding season. That or give them a participatory stake in some eco-tourism ventures featuring these species.
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Well said. It might also be added that management through hunting is essential in many areas to protect the ecological integrity of the environment ( e,g. many areas of southern Africa have too many elephants and the vegetation is being destroyed which will (is) lead to eventual collapse in the elephant populations and also other less robust species. Over millennia elephants have been hunted by man and have developed a relatively high rate of conception (circa 5% a year given adequate food resources) to cope with that ( but obviously not the high kill rate of modern day poachers ).
One of the opening statements was that animals do not provide resources?! Somewhat contradictory when she then goes on to encourage further expolitation of these 'unresourceful' organisms. The current economic model is the cause of the widespread ecological destruction we are currently faced with as it does not actually count natural resourse or animals until they have been harvested.
Besides humans ARE an animal, like it or not, and as a single species we should not consume over 90% of the planets primary production. To effectively conserve and save from extinction even a modest portion of the worlds current biodiversity it is going to require widescale BEHAVIOURAL changes, if you do not view the size of the human population as an issue. We must not set humans apart from nature and design closed loop systems that benefit not degrade habitats further. ALL life has an intrinsic value that most who buy their food from a supermarket, grown in commercial operations, just do not appreciate.
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What she is trying to say is clearly not that us humans are not endangered, but in fact that people in 3rd world countries could die off easily if they do not find some mode of income if you listened to what she was saying you would have heard that or if you did hear it then you obviously don't have enough brain power to recognize it
Awww, put the cute little girl on stage so we can all have an Al Gore-style feel-good moment.
A textbook example of environmentalism as its own worst enemy - well-intentioned fluff.
The amount of revenue derivable from conservation-for-profit economics is tiny compared to burning down the habitat, killing the animals off and putting up an IPhone factory, so this idea is
DOA.
My guess is that in less than 30 years we'll be able to generate any animal ,extinct or otherwise, in mass quantities at will from DNA.
So, that solves the extinction problem neatly. Now, we just need to restore habitat.
Given that artificial meat is just over the temporal horizon, if all dairy/meat/poulty/etc real estate was no longer necessary, that would free up simply vast areas of habitat to repopulate!
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