RE: Having predators in your region will lead to several different benefits for us humans! Keeping them around might actually do us a lot of goods
I agree, but this is a discussion I have with friends in Asia often. I cannot blame them for deforestation and their rapid industrial rises, after all, in Europe, and particularly the UK, we are reaping the huge benefits from our industrial revolution, and now other nations are catching up and developing and pulling themselves out of poverty, it seems a bit hypocritical for the currently developed nations to say 'don't do that', especially as we were the protagonists in the history of environmental damage.
It's a delicate situation which in my opinion should be addressed by us giving them both financial and scientific aid to help them progress in a cleaner and more environmentally friendly way than we did without sounding condescending. Tough balancing act !
Yeah, it's a really complicated situation. I also think the best way to solve it is to incentivize green development in order for these countries to have development that is not as harmful to the environment, by providing money and scientific help. I get why it feels unfair some these countries that the (now rich) industrial countries were "allowed" to not care about the environment back in the days while they have to answer for it, but at the same time our knowledge of why it was so bad has increased a lot, so these days we know how bad it is for a country to become industrialized.