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Two animals that build, which has greater value?

Bear Wild

Well-Known Member
Compare two animals in our world. Both build but, one when they build improves the environment for life, increases water resources, and increases biodiversity supporting all forms of life. The other builds but at the expense of other life with no respect for other life, wasting recourses leaving a lifeless wasted world behind. Which animal has more value to our world the Beaver or the Human?
I recommend reading the book" Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter" by Ben Goldfar and then relook at what really matters. Are humans intelligent enough to respect the natural world.
 

Kangaroo Feathers

Yea, it is written in the Book of Cyril...
Compare two animals in our world. Both build but, one when they build improves the environment for life, increases water resources, and increases biodiversity supporting all forms of life. The other builds but at the expense of other life with no respect for other life, wasting recourses leaving a lifeless wasted world behind. Which animal has more value to our world the Beaver or the Human?
I recommend reading the book" Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter" by Ben Goldfar and then relook at what really matters. Are humans intelligent enough to respect the natural world.
termites?
 

BSM1

What? Me worry?
Compare two animals in our world. Both build but, one when they build improves the environment for life, increases water resources, and increases biodiversity supporting all forms of life. The other builds but at the expense of other life with no respect for other life, wasting recourses leaving a lifeless wasted world behind. Which animal has more value to our world the Beaver or the Human?
I recommend reading the book" Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter" by Ben Goldfar and then relook at what really matters. Are humans intelligent enough to respect the natural world.


Now if we can just get those pesky beavers to build a children's hospital....
 

lewisnotmiller

Grand Hat
Staff member
Premium Member
Earthworms build anything?
Problems to humans is not really a disqualifier. May be a bonus point.

Not build, per se, but they improve soil, which helps plants grow. Kinda not in the spirit of this though...

*Disqualifies earthworms*

Oooh...bowerbirds!?
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
Neither has greater value, but I take the position that all things have precisely equal intrinsic value.

Whether or not I personally value one thing more than another is a different matter, but this only reflects my values, not the inherent worthiness and sacredness that all this possess. Destruction is as divine as construction; death as glorious as birth. Due respect granted to all things, even if I do not personally like them.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
Beavers are making a comeback due to human recognition and biological science. Beavers'd never do that for us, because they wouldn't have the brains. Its up to humans not to beavers, and guess who will save the world when the next supervolcano pops or the next comet hits? Us. You're welcome, beavers.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
Good Beavers Gone Bad-

Beavers imported from Canada are threatening the primeval forests of Patagonia
 

Audie

Veteran Member
They aren't destroying. They are terraforming to make it more like Canada.

They are building just so they can destroy, like Col. Aureliano Buendia
with his little gold fishes.

Who are THEY??

Make it like Canada?
Who is behind all of this?
Who is making who like what...

Nazi raccoons on the rampage as European population explodes

Raccoons, indigenous to North America but reportedly first released into the wild in Germany by Hermann Goering, the founder of the Gestapo, are marauding their way across Europe.
 
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