- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmy.ml
Have you met people?
I try not to.
Yeah, we got people in droves.
Elephants however are rare and majestic.
Also people (as a group, not individuals) are responsible for most of our own suffering, and also most of the suffering of elephants.
One species is helpless against human evils and the other is only largely helpless.
How many people do elephants kill?
How many people do people kill?
People suck.
I was going to say- maybe that’s the right attitude?
Elephants are very smart and they aren’t destroying the planet.
Yeah, this is definitely a “he’s making a point, just not the point he wants to make” kinda thing. Maybe if he said that Europeans care more about elephants than they do about Africans, it would have been a little clearer.
To be fair, elephants would if they could. They’re known for knocking down trees so that they can eat the foliage. Turns out they knock down more trees than humans do in the African savanna.
They’re doing it to survive. That’s a little different.
How about globally? Elephants knocking down more trees than humans? What is it, like, 50/50? 60/40?
Did you know elephants clearcut the rainforest to raise cattle? And they invented crack! Heck, they’d vote Democrat if we’d let ‘em.
There’s about 400,000 elephants and 8 billion humans, it’s not a fair fight.
The amount of people that elephants kill is not 0. Though, most of the human deaths that involve elephants are probably the human’s fault.
And immediately preceeded with the local equivalent of “Hey y’all, watch this!”
Haven’t met an asshole elephant yet.
But elephants are like people and some may be jerks…
Oh, they DO exist… Herd of juvenile males with no adult supervision were running riot. Solution? Bring in some bull males to knock some sense into them. Just like with kids, worked great!
https://beyondthesestonewalls.com/posts/in-the-absence-of-fathers-a-story-of-elephants-and-men
This is why we need male only social spaces like backnin the day. Used to be a way for intergenerational bonding and a lot more.
We seemed to have lost a lot of community over the last 50 years and no-one seems to care. Or worse they think it’s a good thing.
Well…
Yeah…
sorry
Cause people suck
The world would be a much better place if we placed nature’at least at the same level of care as we place generalized human need.
Well, yeah, there are 8 billion people now. How many elephants are there? 400,000?
Europeans care more about elephants than people, says Botswana president
is a rare English ambiguity construction that means either:
Europeans care more about elephants than Europeans care about people
or
Europeans care more about elephants than people care about elephants
we’ll never know
Elephants taste better than people.
You’ve tried both?
Well the guide on safari said if I closed my eyes and opened my mouth he’d let me try trunk. It was smaller and saltier than I was expecting.
I’m also pretty sure the elefant had a cold.