Sea Lion Deaths a Natural Process

Re: Tracy Belles’ letter about starving sea lions and the natural selection that is occurring on San Miguel Island:

This planet is 5 billion years old and has been through many changes. This is one of them. El Nino is not a human creation. Where should all the animals go? Who is going to take care of them?

Let’s bring a daily truckload of fish to San Miguel Island until we have 12,000 sea lions on the island. What are we going to do in 20 years, when the next El Nino hits? (Two daily truckloads of fish?)

This is a natural process. Our civilization is built on the idea of life and death. To keep up a high level of genetic variation, the process occurring on San Miguel Island needs to continue. It may be possible for it to be done more humanely than by having the animals die due to starvation. But indeed, this is a natural process. The gene pool among the sea lions is diminishing, and in order to create change, the population of animals needs to decrease: survival of the fittest.

There is also a problem with an overpopulation of coyotes in this area. We are going to catch them and bring them to where? Give someone else the problem? We have too many of them and shipping them out to another area will not solve the problem.

In order to create a happy, suitable living environment, the population of sea lions on San Miguel Island has to be reduced, with or without human intervention. So the only real solution for all of these problems is to return the planet to what it was before and get rid of all the humans. The Earth would definitely be beautiful and peaceful once more.

WIM ZWINKELS

and LEONIE ZWINKELS

Camarillo