Same with anti-personnel land mines.

Ha! Bonitis.

Such a funny name for a horrible disease. If you go to the future where they have a cure, don't forget to take it!

...and would never end up being the ruler of the Queen's navy.

Stop giving their cause any press. The media doesn't show streakers at sporting events anymore, and the same should happen here.

"Activists shut down an airport for publicity". Publicity for what? No-one knows...

This happens all the time, you just don't notice is because there is no angle to get upset about.

You've asserted this before. I don't think anyone has proposed renaming 152 kinds of birds before.
 

With a descriptive name, you will instantly know what the characteristics of the bird are

This is going to surprise you, but most birds are highly sexually dimorphic. The males and females (a concept that actually exists in biology) look radically different. Should we use the descriptions of the male birds for the names? Sounds patriarchal. And using the female descriptions is a problem because females have generally much more muted characteristics than the males. No one will be able to tell the species apart.
 
This is a terrible waste of effort.

The fact that species changed over time and evolved was well accepted in Erasmus Darwin's (Charles' grandfather) generation.

On the Origin of Species proposed the mechanism for evolution.

...that everyone dies eventually. Everyone. Some people die sooner, some die later, but everyone dies.

When I'm 85 in a home somewhere and someone tells me I will die tomorrow due to some new disease, or I can live another year if we sacrifice the freedom of billions of people and run up an amount of debt my great grandchildren will be paying off, I pray to Odin that I have the stones to say "thanks, but it's not worth it".