圖一: 澳洲雪梨動物園
從澳洲袋鼠反思人類應分享資源非掠奪的使命
地球的生存權利不是只屬於人類的，數千萬的生物與我們活在此世界中，有許多動物不是應該有他們的棲息地嗎 ?以澳洲為例，根本就是地廣人稀，給袋鼠一個棲息環境，而當局卻要在牠們數量大增後，要屠殺牠們百萬之眾。人類對動物具生殺大權，對不會毒害人類的野生動物也實行對家畜般的權力，可見人對非我族群的殘酷。台灣也對獼猴數量大增偷食農作物一事，進行調降其保育類身分的措施。動物與人類爭地自古已然，於今為烈。以前只是偶發事件，現在是人類數量遽增，動物屬地幾乎蕩然無存，人類只好控制牠們的數量，好讓全地球為人類佔據。這對人類是否為好事，許多生態學者都已提出反駁。
圖一: 澳洲動物園袋鼠
而我們許多關心動物的人也對此憂心關切，覺得人應該將心比心，屠殺無辜的動物不是我們這個地球管理者該做的事。基於商業利益如毀滅鯨魚、海豹、蜜蜂、大象、甚至袋鼠族群，都表現人類無理性殘暴的一面。因為動物只會因飢餓、自衛而殺害對方，而人卻是在富裕後，為了奢豪殺象取牙、大啖鮪魚鯨魚、取海豹油壯身、取熊掌做大餐、取貂做豪華皮早...讓這些族群將消失於地球，實在不可思議 !
愛因斯坦之前即說：當蜂蜜消失後，已就是人類消失的前兆1。根據科學家的研究，地球可能是宇宙唯一有生物的星球，因要有生物需具備203項條件，包括大氣層成分比例、太陽月球與地球的距離、地球在銀河系的位置、木星的保護位置等，這在宇宙的或然率是微乎其微2，外星人之說真實性極低，所以任何一個物種都是宇宙的稀客。而現今人口將近80億，還將迅速成長。大量魚類遭人類捕獲，據估計2050年以後會沒魚可吃。
「創世紀」裡上帝要人類管理地球，祂不僅對所創造的人類感到滿意，對動物也很滿意，而且動物先於人類的創造，所以動物在地球的生存權跟人類是相輔相成的，人類既然賦予最高的智慧，就應有最好的管理技術來管理地球上的生物，一個好老闆會以最好的福利來分享給員工，而不是讓公司破產，向員工大開殺戒。我們人類現在對地球做的是怎樣的粗糙野蠻，確實到了該檢討的時候，不要只顧當前自己的利益，而忘了分享利益給其他族群，最後也賠上自己族群的未來。
1. “If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live”
2. Rare Earth Hypothesis: "the paradox that life may be nearly everywhere but complex life almost nowhere." Rare Earth lays out a series of factors which appear to be crucial to the development of complex life. Some have been known for years, such as the necessity of a planet being the right distance from its sun (like Goldilocks's soup, not too hot and not too cold), a stable planetary environment, and the absence of any threatening nearby astronomical phenomena to scald the planet with radiation. Others, however, have only been recently recognized. The spectacular 1994 impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 with Jupiter made abundantly clear the role that Jupiter plays in protecting us from cosmic catastrophe: the planet acts as an gravitational vacuum cleaner, sucking up incoming debris and preventing it from reaching the inner Solar System. Without Jupiter, life on Earth might have been obliterated long before ever gaining a secure foothold.
The presence of a large moon helps to stabilize the Earth's axial tilt and slow its rotation, keeping climatic variations in check. Geology is also a crucial consideration. One of Rare Earth's most fascinating ideas is the importance that plate tectonics might have played in the evolution of animals. By creating mountains, deserts, lakes, and all the other myriad varieties of microenvironments on Earth, plate tectonics encouraged the process of speciation--the development of different types of organisms capable of surviving in a greater range of conditions.
http://home.earthlink.net/~exetermw/rareearth.html
