Extinction vs accuracy

[Michael Gochfeld]

Next time you (anybody) have the dubious opportunity of watching a tree removal
activity from land to be developed, watch the huge tree biting and chipping
equipment, and see if it fits the description of "violent" or even "violent
destruction at the very source".
 
M. Gochfeld
 
rudy benavides wrote:
 
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> John:  My Webster's New World Dictionary states that the synonym for
> extirpate is exterminate.  Under exterminate, it states...SYN.- exterminate
> implies the complete, wholesale destruction of living beings or things whose
> existence is considered undesirable; extirpate and eradicate both suggest
> the extinction or abolition of something, extirpate implying a deliberate
> and violent destruction at the very source so that the thing cannot be
> regenerated, and eradicate connoting less violence and often, the working of
> natural processesor a methodical plan.
>
> So I have to maintain that unless someone went to Streetboro Fen to
> deliberately snuff out the Mitchell's satyr, it was not an extirpation.
> That habitat destruction resulted in its vanishing from the site-- I would
> agree on that.
>
> Rudy Benavides
> Maryland
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