Even if you think animal suffering is bad enough that it would be a good idea to kill them all, reglaciation is just a bizarre way of achieving this. First of all it doesn’t actually kill off all animals. Also it would be an amazingly slow and destructive and expensive and… stupid way of killing things.
I wasn’t commenting on practical strategies about reducing the number of wild animals. All I was saying is that there are positive consequences of reglaciation and that they might outweigh the negative consequences. Of course, there are probably ways to bring about the positive consequences faster and more effectively while still preventing the negative ones.
(Don’t interpret too much into my account name here, I didn’t even realize how fitting it was to this discussion until you pointed it out.)
Even if you think animal suffering is bad enough that it would be a good idea to kill them all, reglaciation is just a bizarre way of achieving this. First of all it doesn’t actually kill off all animals. Also it would be an amazingly slow and destructive and expensive and… stupid way of killing things.
I wasn’t commenting on practical strategies about reducing the number of wild animals. All I was saying is that there are positive consequences of reglaciation and that they might outweigh the negative consequences. Of course, there are probably ways to bring about the positive consequences faster and more effectively while still preventing the negative ones. (Don’t interpret too much into my account name here, I didn’t even realize how fitting it was to this discussion until you pointed it out.)
Reglaciation precludes many other possibilities, so the opportunity costs must be considered as well.