Yes, we should drastically change nature’s status quo so that lives of wild animals (or any sentient creatures) are filled with positive experiences, worth living, pleasant, eudaimonic, etc… but only once we have enough technological capacity and gears-level understanding of the system we are dealing with. Needless to say, we are far from that. Also, our (i.e. human civilization’s) survival and progress still depends on the environment remaining mostly as it is and there is still a lot of useful knowledge to be uncovered from studying it in a relatively nonperturbing way.
Yes, we should drastically change nature’s status quo so that lives of wild animals (or any sentient creatures) are filled with positive experiences, worth living, pleasant, eudaimonic, etc… but only once we have enough technological capacity and gears-level understanding of the system we are dealing with. Needless to say, we are far from that. Also, our (i.e. human civilization’s) survival and progress still depends on the environment remaining mostly as it is and there is still a lot of useful knowledge to be uncovered from studying it in a relatively nonperturbing way.