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by tedks 4283 days ago
"Incredible complexity" is a handwave. If you can't give a specific reason then you have none at all.

You can use "incredible complexity" on literally anything. Everything is complex. Humans manage.

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Yeah, I could use "incredible complexity" on something else like, let's say for example, climate and meteorology. But instead of being conservative about what we pump into the atmosphere, we could just dump in it like that's what it's there for. And see where we end up. I don't think it's at all unreasonable to draw a parallel with that and ecosystem complexity.

Corollary: I don't see how a broadly conservative approach to managing biodiversity can be discounted because it isn't specific enough.