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One basic weakness in a conservation system?based wholly on economic motives is that most members of the land community have no economic value. Yet these creatures are members of the?biotic community and, if its stability depends on its integrity, they are entitled to continuance. When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and, if we happen to love it, we invent excuses to give it economic importance. At the beginning of the century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing.(46)Scientists jumped to the rescue with?some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat