@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:
I'm not sure what you were reaching for with your owl and squirrel analogy but , I suppose we could spray the lichen fields with a spore form of the live vaccine. I don't know how successful that'd be . SO, I propose that it be tested out in a hurry so we dont wind up losing ours (and Canada;s) caribou.
The owl and squirrel analogy was in reference to the larger problem of climate continuing to change because of the combined total of all human development and industrial activities that basically stoke themselves by always finding new uses for industrially-powered machines and infrastructure projects to support those.
So when you start applying industrialism to the task of intervening in diseases and other symptoms of climate change, you are using climate change coping mechanisms to add fuel to the fire of climate change.
So on the one hand these animals can benefit from humans flying around in helicopters and using other vehicles to vaccinate them against disease, etc.; but the bottom line is that the climate is changing because of the whole economic culture of industrialism justifying expensive helicopter flights and other projects, including wildlife-rescues that ultimately amount to more economic stimulus that keeps the climate-changing industrial economic culture burning through resources as it does.
For nature climate to be restored, humans have to settle down. If they get excited and put even more energy into mitigating climate change, that in itself is a distraction from the settling down required to restore natural patterns and thus allow climate to heal.