

While it’s true that Christian imperialism is environmentally destructive, hunting species to extinction predates both Christianity and white people. Every continent suffered mass extinctions pretty much the moment the humans set foot there for the first time.
The invention of agriculture provided a huge material impetus to destroy predator populations and as far back as the neolithic revolution humans conducted the mass burning of forests and wild habitat to clear room for farms.
No guarantee they’d be sold off to Argentina. The sea territory is valuable enough that any major power would happily take them. It would be particularly funny to sell them to Chile or Brazil