I noted last night in response to the comment that it is sad that the rainforest is being developed into farmland that I would rather see people fed than the horny toad's habitat protected.
A comment from another followed that there is enough land in Iowa to feed the entire world. I wasn't sure how to respond to that. I didn't know how that justified the environmentalist-spawned idea that it is always wrong to destroy the rainforests.
But now I know.
If there is land enough in Iowa to feed the entire world, then there is no reason for us to fear that the rainforest will be totally destroyed. Shortly after enough land has been farmed to provide the food necessary to feed the whole world, people will stop creating farmland because it is no longer profitable to do so; there would be enough farmland and enough food and producing extra wouldn't be profitable. With the correct understanding, men aren't going to do it if it doesn't profit them.
Too many men would put their hands in to act as the intermediary on behalf of men, not realizing that by their very intervention they are preventing the very things they are trying to bring to pass because they are getting in the way of natural law.