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There's the killing again. And no, it's not a glorified trail camera. Very different. Everyone wants to kill before trying measures to keep people and their a
by hcfman 3mo ago
There's the killing again.
And no, it's not a glorified trail camera. Very different.
Everyone wants to kill before trying measures to keep people and their animals apart.
I don't think you can say it does nothing to help people live with wolves because it's not being tried. It's not being tried, because people being convince the only thing that helps is killing everything that requires a bit of effort to live with. I realize it's very human to destroy and kill, but I think we should strive to do better.
Humans have already stolen so much from nature and the animals, don't you think a little effort to do better would be a good thing?
- gonzalohm 3mo agoA lot of people are like that when dealing with nature. Oh I don't want squirrels in my backyard, let me put some poison... We really don't deserve a place on this planet
- micromacrofoot 3mo agosame with mosquitoes, let's just spray or fog and kill all the other bugs too... including ones that kill mosquitos
- nullstyle 3mo agoI’ll argue mozzies are responsible for more suffering than humans any day of the week. They need to go. Lets just get our targeting good enough.
- micromacrofoot 3mo agothe good news is that if we can't figure out how to target them specifically soon, we'll have already killed all the side effects
- idiotsecant 3mo ago... What do you think wolves do all day?
- pvaldes 3mo agoThey mostly sleep and play all day. As anybody with a chonky dog at home can confirm. And they provide premium ecological services all night that would be really expensive to cover by ourselves.
- idiotsecant 3mo agoThey kill and eat things. Brutally and sometimes primarily for fun. Unless you somehow consider yourself no longer an animal I'm not sure eradicating capable predators is deserving of 'no longer living on this planet'
- pocksuppet 3mo agoThat's a fine attitude for squirrels which are ultimately harmless, but wolves can attack people, although that's somewhat rare, not like bears which attack you every time. Wikipedia says wolves are more likely to attack humans if they've been living around humans for a while - they learn that humans are viable prey, not that humans are harmless.
- gonzalohm 3mo agoClimate change also kills people and we don't do anything about it
- hcfman 3mo agoThere is a lot not to be proud of about human behavior. Still.. one has to try to be a little positive about there being hope as hopelessness is contagious.
- jltsiren 3mo agoBear attacks depend on the (sub)species. European brown bears are very shy and much less likely to attack people than wolves. Finnish people traditionally respected bears but were not afraid of them. Historical records mostly tell of two kinds of bear attacks. Either children / old people herding cattle in the forest accidentally got too close to a bear cub, or adult men were hunting bears and something went wrong.
- hcfman 3mo agoWe have systems in Finland as well. We have detected Lynx a number of times. Later this year some systems will move to bear country.
- dvt 3mo ago> There's the killing again. Do you not understand how ecosystems work? Or how populations of predator/prey are in various (usually) oscillatory states? > Humans have already stolen so much from nature and the animals I'm confused, are you saying humans are somehow not part of nature?
- hcfman 3mo agoSure they are. But try mentally reversing the situation. If any other single species occupied and changed the landscape as much as humans they would be viewed by humans as the most horrific plague on earth. So I'm just a little empathy would be well placed here. A little effort to try and co-exist with the other inhabitants would not be out of place and as a bonus you can think a little better of yourself.