Why are endangered species more important than dying humans? I mean, I know that endangered species and other things like that aren%26#039;t something to be taken lightly, but why are people going out of their way to donate and save polar bears and seals when there are humans that starve to death everyday? I%26#039;m sure it%26#039;s a noble cause, but don%26#039;t you think that our priorities are a bit out of order?

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1 month ago

Vette999-I don%26#039;t think that we should completely stop, I just think we need to cool down and help out our own species before we hire actors like Noah Wyle to preach about how sad some oil in the ocean makes whales.

What am I personally doing? What the Hell? Honestly, I%26#039;m not doing anything. It%26#039;s late at night, I%26#039;m bored and I felt like posting a question on Yahoo! Answers. Give me a break.

Thanks a lot for your input on the question though, I respect everyone who takes their time to answer my questions.

1 month ago

Thanks to all you guys who have answered so far. I sort of realized the answer before I even posted the question, but like I said to Vette I%26#039;m was just a bit bored. Anyone else reading this please take some time to answer, even if it%26#039;s terrible I%26#039;ll enjoy reading it.

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well here%26#039;s the hypocrisy, millions of animals can be wiped out to save one person, but at the same time we can declare war and kill tens of thousands of people in the name of %26quot;terrorism%26quot;

There has to be a balance. Very few people put animals lives ahead of peoples but we also can%26#039;t just say %26quot;F**k the whole planet%26quot; cause one person might go hungry.

sad as it may sound there HAS to be an element of natural selection even on the human race. We can%26#039;t make every single person on earth live forever. Nor can we feed everyone even if we used all the money in the world. the planet can%26#039;t even sustain what there is now

You say it%26#039;s terrible to put anything before people, but how many %26quot;precious%26quot; people would die if we destroyed entire ecosystems and species, causing farmland to die off and food sources to be depleted

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I%26#039;d say that you put it the best, thanks for your time.

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• Are you suggesting that we not do anything to save other species until humans stop dying? If our priorities are out of order, what should they be? To continue to allow other species to die out so that we can increase our own numbers so that we can do even more polluting and destruction of the planet?
  
  If you%26#039;re that concerned with starving people, I%26#039;d be very interested to know exactly what you personally are doing on their behalf.
• I believe that both of these problems are very serious and both require addressing. I also believe that all the donations from us small folk in the world will not stop the problem of starving/ dying humans. I think our governments need to step up to help solve the issue. I choose to donate to %26#039;people charities%26#039; regularly but I also send money to animal charities on occasion as well. The world we share is not only populated with humans - I can%26#039;t help thinking that%26#039;s not an accident. I think ALL life on earth needs to be respected. I think people need to be educated how their actions impact their own natural environment. Can you imagine the world if nobody cared? So you are saying that we%26#039;d be better to send all our donation money to human charities and not to waste it on the animals. How many times have you bought something for yourself that you didn%26#039;t really need? An extra jacket because it looks cool. A new pillow because your other one had gone a bit flat. Take away dinner because you didn%26#039;t feel like eating salad. While that was happending (and most of us make purchases like that all the time) people overseas huddled under a plastic sheet to keep out of the rain while they only dreamed of eating a salad. They need medicine but there is none. So maybe my question is %26quot;Why are we well-fed, well-clothed, well-housed people more important than dying humans and endangered animals?%26quot; Perhaps what we need to do is spend less on ourselves in general thus increasing the amount we can afford to donate anywhere!
• Humans are far from being endangered ,on the contrary we have far too many.
  
  according to an American statesman at a meeting in 1998 in Copenhagen ,the Bilderberg Agenda demanded a lowering of the world population by 60% so the priority appears to be to have less Humans.
  
  And many indigenous races have been persecuted into extinction .,not to speak of overseas bombings.
  
  It sounds as if you are advocating treason to question the priorities.
• Its because environmentalists are suffering from a form of self hate. It sickens me every time I hear about some moron contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars to save some stupid animal, when children are being abused and neglected daily and that money could be used to help them!
  Like the Sarah McLaughlin(sp) commercial for the ASPCA, why are dogs more important to her than a human?
  Animals have be going extinct along time before we even got here(just ask the dinos about it), who%26#039;s to say its just not their time to exit stage right?
• becoz population of human can be obtained, death occurs if so. but the rare species or endangered species are not able to re obtained, because of some particular environmentsl conditions(favorable/unfavorable). And human population is much enough.
  so we should concentrate towards the rarer speacies. because in a manner we are the reason for their extinction.
• Because Polar Bear populations are dying!! in one certain spot.. Everywhere else, its up 500%.
  
  But the little cute man eating polar bears! Nobody cares about humans, their not as cute!! Pooooooo%26#039; little polar bears!!!