Why do humans have such a callous view on pollution resulting in extinction/endangerment of wildlife???

Answer 1

Most people are going about their lives and not individually killing wildlife. Lots of people would probably even deny that they are contributing to extinction of wildlife. They are not cutting trees, hunting, trapping, clearing wild land for development or pouring dioxin on the ground are they? Some are, but I am not. Most are not. It is not individuals, but the sum total of what all people do that is the problem. The problem is too many people. If there were only 10 people in the world, those 10 could each pollute 100 times more than the dirtiest people do now and not one single species would go extinct. So the biggest thing you as an individual can do to lessen your impact on the environment is to not contribute more people to the problem, Do not have any children.

Answer 2

You have your car. You live in a home with heat, electricity, hot water, running water, a computer to ask Yahoo Answer's, you go to the Mall. You eat hamburgers, hot dogs, pork chops, pizza with pepperoni. You take a shower every day with nice soap and shampoo. You fly to Florida during the winter for Spring Break. You wear leather shoes, belts silk shirts. Have a pocket book or wallet to put your money. Hey twenty first century technology ain't too bad. Perhaps you would like to live in a tent or cave or log cabin. Go fetch the water at the water hole three times per day, Boil it in the fire you make after you chop the firewood. Walk or ride a horse every time you want to go somewhere. Where you going to go? You have no time. Between the crops that need tending or hunting or taking care of the sick kids because the witch doctor or shaman is busy with someone else, where do you think you are going?

You have these big ideals? Well perhaps you should live in a cave or the log cabin. Ditch your car and the mall and the Internet and TV. Are you worried about the animals? Quit eating fried chicken and BBQ and start growing all your food. And the leather shoes and belts and pocketbooks have to go too. Make sure you get rid of all these things before you start complaining. Like all these big movie stars complaining about the environment. Then they get on their Lear Jet for the Premier which puts more pollution in the air going across country than most people in their car in 10 years. You think I am callous? The alternative is back in the stone age.

Answer 3

Mainly a Christian attitude speaking from experience of having lived among various kinds of cultures ,including African and central American Natives.as well as African and American Christian cultures ,
it always astounds me the callousness that exist with this culture ,and always the response is the same.

1)God put these animals here for us ..we can do with them what we like .
2) humans and animals are not of the same concept animals have no feelings or emotions
3) when we die we go to a Paradise far more beautifully that here on Earth,so what happens here really doesn't matter
4)Nature is ugly full of devils and is meant to be turned into civilization and agriculture
5) when people die custom demands that some trees are cut down as well ,for a coffin and lots more for crosses and temples

these five concepts are responsible for most of the worlds environmental destruction (of both flora and fauna),contamination excessive farming ,pollution,excessive hunting ,extinction of Natives,deforestation,
and this culture is the planets biggest enemy

Pagan cultures philosophies are exactly the opposites of the ones listed above.

Answer 4

If wildlife didn't want to become extinct it should have worked harder at school, got a good job and made sure it could afford to buy some nice real estate somewhere. I have no sympathy.

We cannot have layabout wildlife just loitering about the neighbourhood not contributing to the economy! Get out there and contribute!

Answer 5

they have not found their god in any other object than themselves. even if they practice a religion, they wouldnt be that way if they actually followed it properly. let me tell you though that churches dont practice the word of let us worship our trees and pray to the animals so that they always will be. they dont say let us go and collect the herbs so we can heal and feed our families. they dont say let us plant our crops this season, and let us be thankful for the plentiful crop that has grown. we cant say there bad people but we do know for sure that they dont make there church teachings like this at all. they yell at you to love god in big church rock bands these days and to confess sins mostly. the part that scares most people is that god will send anyone to hell for thousands of reasons. so there really are alot of christian people who dont get the better kind of teacings in life. so i said that they dont see god in anything else but themselfs. if they seen god has created a tree, and why wouldnt they, because thier tree of life is an olive tree, they would see their god in that tree and respect it so that it will always be. you can go with this philosophy on all nature subjects. dont ever let anyone say its a new religion against the church. tell them to expand thier minds to these concepts as they make a church person more spiritual and adds to church doctrine. a company that makes and makes and keeps making will run out of resources some time. but what they are doing is unto the wild living things which will affect us if they dont quit. god and all his alias names and symbols (unicorn, wizard, allah, and, and and, and and) is the root of all creation. he inspires the art we create. you see it first and foremost in painters. some works are truly unbelieveable in beauty. thier god gave them the ability and hence the painting. it is a one of a kind, has deep spiritual meaning to its buyer if especially it is a one of a kind. it is completely ok for that artist to spin enough canvas material for that art piece; to gather and mix enough paint material, because since it is only one peice, the world will be ok still. if that same artist became greedy and built a factory and mass produced a hundred billion copies of that one work of art, gods plan for the painting is ruined. he wanted only that one person to see it everyday, and when the entire world sees it, he might as well have not endowed the artist with the abilities in the first place. this is what makes everyones god sad. as ten hundred thousand factory produced paintings kiills the equivalent of the smallest forrest creatures. peace

Answer 6

Simply because humans are too greedy and apathetic. We do not care until it hits us.