One of the more amusing of hunters’ feeble rationalizations is that they are “part of nature,” as though that entitles them to assume the role of top predator over every other species. Funny how they bring that up when they think it will get them what they want, but when the preacher postulates that humans are above the animals and nature, they’re the first to stand up and shout “Amen!”
It seems they want their cake and eat it too.
Modern humans have long since stacked the deck in their favor. When Mother Nature decides to defend herself against their fully-armed onslaught by summoning up a super-bug or super-storm, hunters will quickly decide it’s no fun to be part of nature anymore and demand a dose of the antidote or call in the rescue helicopters.
Natural predators, like wolves, don’t have the kind of creature comforts that even the most impoverished…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Man left subsistence hunting and living in the wild in small tribal groups a long time ago, and the dawn of civilization and turn to agriculture and animal farming. He has now become a sportsman, a killer of wildlife for fun, not subsistence. The animal world, the wilderness cannot support animal farming in the wild wherein the sportsmen upset the balance by farming sports targets and marginalizing the predators or eliminating them. The wild cannot support trophy hunting. 40% of the worlds animals have disappeared in the past 50 years. Time for the “sportsman” to disappear.
3) the law of finite resources, that there is a limit to growth, a limit to carrying capacity. Human populations grow by literally stealing the carrying capacity of other species and by so doing, they diminish diversity and thus cut the bonds of interdependence.
Well said Captain Watson! We act like we are the only species on the planet, when you listen to the evening news or political drivel. We prize diversity in our own population; it’s time we did so for the rest of the planet as well.