> A little disappointed that neither the article nor comments have made much of the argument that any species which has made it through billions of years of evolution is intrinsically a thing of value.
When you dabble in evolutionary determinism, you run into problems, because humans seem to have free will but also seem to be the result of evolution. So when it comes to decisions by humans, it's hard to say which choice is "interfering" with evolution. I would say that, by definition, no human action is interfering with evolution, assuming that humans are the result of evolution. If we do decide to eliminate mosquitoes, well, that just means humans evolved to eliminate mosquitoes, and mosquitoes didn't evolve to survive such attempts.
When you dabble in evolutionary determinism, you run into problems, because humans seem to have free will but also seem to be the result of evolution. So when it comes to decisions by humans, it's hard to say which choice is "interfering" with evolution. I would say that, by definition, no human action is interfering with evolution, assuming that humans are the result of evolution. If we do decide to eliminate mosquitoes, well, that just means humans evolved to eliminate mosquitoes, and mosquitoes didn't evolve to survive such attempts.