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Humanity making progress like it always does (mbin.grits.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And that's only because whales and elephants are so massive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It doesn't help that we chose the meatiest animals to keep as livestock and then made sure they got even fatter than they started by any means necessary. One factory farmed cow probably weighs like 12 wild deer and a few wild rabbits for good measure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

yes exactly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Presumably subway rats and other vermin count as wild?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

and how is that relevant to what I said?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

How isn’t it relevant? Large animals like whales make up a disproportionate amount of ‘wild animal’ biomass. But rats, mice etc will make up a sizeable proportion too while being human centric pests in much of the world.

4% is actually worse than it looks.