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How does giving your cats to a friend relieve you of the burden they place on the planet? It seems like you're just passing the buck in that instance.
by phil248 7y ago
How does giving your cats to a friend relieve you of the burden they place on the planet? It seems like you're just passing the buck in that instance.
- 11235813213455 7y agoThink about more than 1 billions pets in the world, think about all the industry, transports, pollution related to them, think about the damages of outdoor/feral cats to the local fauna If more people have this in mind, imagine how much pollution can be saved
- ssijak 7y agoGiving a cat to a friend does not remove a cat from planet Earth, unless that friend likes to eat cat burgers which is unlikely.
- barkingcat 7y agoI would like a cat burger! Please give me a cat you don't need!
- cvbczxbcxv 7y agoBecause the friend was going to buy a cat anyways, therefore, globally, a new cat does not need to spawned.
- futureastronaut 7y agoThere are a ton of extra cats regardless of demand.
- 11235813213455 7y agoobviously I'm more for neutering, gently eliminating them globally
- futureastronaut 7y agoI take it you're not much of a "cat person."
- 11235813213455 7y agoSeriously, wild life matters much much more, pets have no benefit for the ecosystem, actually a negative impact It's time to change lifestyles, pets, x-mas, makeup, .. all those unnecessary things Edit: answering one of your reply, I knew about their pest control effect, they were also used in old Egypt times against snakes. Now 'residential' cats impact mostly birds, lizards, some insects probably, which all is very bad. But the worse of their environmental impact is from their consumption (their food, healthcare, ..). It's less than of a human, but still significant. I don't know how many tonnes of pets food are produced every year, and how many kilometers of transport they do on average, ...
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- pizza234 7y ago> It's time to change lifestyles, pets, x-mas, makeup, .. all those unnecessary things This is a significant oversimplification of a complex subject. Human life is a lot about things that are, in a way or another, "unnecessary". I'm not in favour of certain forms of pleasure (eg. "makeup"), however, they're part of human culture and they can't be removed in real world. I have also the suspicion that you assume that a certain type of personality doesn't chase unnecessary things (hint: there are plenty). At the end of the day, humanity as a whole balances, more or less consciously, the immediate advantages of those forms of immediate pleasure, against action against a perceivedly distant threat (if the perception was of an immediate threat, like, death tomorrow, things would surely change overnight), and chooses the former. It's hard to say what could realistically shift the balance. Personally, I think the shift will start to happen when things will be considerably bad.
- danieldk 7y agoIf they were planning to get a cat anyway, then it would actually help.
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- yjhoney 7y agoThe cat is a Flerken