The ethics of nature reengineering: wild animal suffering and the importance of the future

那么，这个提议的主要研究问题是：重新设计自然过程以减轻野生动物的痛苦在道德上是允许的，或者甚至是必须的吗？除了不那么雄心勃勃的干预形式也会遇到的反对意见，比如所谓的自然发生的野生动物痛苦的难处（Delon & Purves 2018）或我们缺乏这样做的知识和手段（Johannsen 2020），自然再造面临着一些具体的挑战。如果我们要对上面提出的研究问题有一个令人信服的答案，所有这些问题都应该得到解决

The main research question of this proposal, then, is: Is it morally permissible, or perhaps even required, to redesign natural processes in order to alleviate wild animal suffering? Apart from the objections that less ambitious forms of intervention also encounter, like the alleged intractability of naturogenic wild animal suffering (Delon & Purves 2018) or our lack of the knowledge and the means to do so (Johannsen 2020), nature reengineering faces some specific challenges. All of them should be addressed if we are to have a compelling answer to the research question presented above