It’s interesting to compare hunting today with all the technologies and interventions and boundaries imposed by human barriers — many hunters after few animals — with the hunting described in Farley Mowat’s Sea of Slaughter, which I’m now reading, when it was many hunters after many animals, so many still left that hunters could take out 10’s of birds with one shot, sit behind a blind, drunk, and shoot out at the masses without requiring being able to see much if any at all, club flightless birds to death by the hundreds or thousands in just a few hours. Humans absolutely decimated the natural world 1500’s-mid 1800’s here in North America, til there were few left. Then we began inventing technology to make it easier to get the few that are left.

When there’s a lot, we take a lot. When there’s a little, we take it all… to quote you.