Killing endangered species will save them.

[mburbank]

One and the Same; you're only showing your ignorance regarding ecology. The wider the base, the more stable the system. Not farm animals, as many different animals as possible. Not one strain of goats, as many strains as possible. Not green plants, as many different strains of green plants as possible. Smaller sytems are weaker systems, vulnerable to damage in all sorts of ways. Your faith in technologies ability to keep pace is charming, but faith in God to rescue you would make more sense, since religous faith requires only faith, and quite sensibly needs to physical evidence.

I don't think your viewpoint is due to your youth, I think your degree of faith in the workings of your own brain is due to your youth. You think you've stumbled on some sort of iconoclastic realism when in fact your only wading through the same swamp a gajillion other half way bright college kids have waded through before. It's all very daring I'm sure. It's also self centered, overly proud, glib and absurd. Any scientist worth their salt would tell you we have only scratched the surface of understanding eco systems, how they work, and their effects on and relationship to our own survival. Proceed with caution. Even if you don't give a shit about beauty, wonder, the rights of other species or any of that other vaguley sugary happy crappy, you don't need to be a dunce. We're messing with things we have a very poor understanding of and every day we reduce our chances of understanding any more.