Hello folks, Interesting discussion over the last few days. Goes so quickly that I have trouble keeping up with all the points. I think the point is to avoid that. Nothing more, nothing less.
Erosion serves a very important function as a natural action.
Similarly, it seems to me, there is some level of human induced extinction that may be in sync with the evolutionary process. Searching for that balance seems to me to have been at the basis of discussions since early in the industrial revolution - and we are still not clear about it. As to the defense of anthropocentrism, good and well. Action cannot wait for theoreticians to work out all the quirks, cannot wait for a rational foundation for what has to be done now. The ecologists, the deep ecologists, and many others trying different roads help understand the possibilities and the pitfalls of the several ways to come to the ecological issues.