[ExI] Most Monarch butterflies in 20 years

[Brent Allsop]

Cockroaches equal to monarch butterflies??? ;)

I suppose next you're going to argue we should welcome Mosquitoes, and fire
the great Mosquito abatement authority we have here in Salt Lake City? ;)


On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 7:18 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Max More via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* [ExI] Most Monarch butterflies in 20 years
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> This was a topic that I recall from several years ago. Apparently the
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> California county sees highest number of monarch butterflies in more than
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> <https://phys.org/news/2022-12-california-county-highest-monarch-butterflies.html>
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> Max, it just doesn’t seem fair to me.  The monarch butterfly population is
> the highest in 20 years, hooray, they all cheered.
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> But would the conservationists be half as enthusiastic if the cockroach
> population was bouncing back, and was higher than ever?  NO!  So why the
> big deal for one over another?  We should have bug equality.
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