On the other hand I'm worried about animals in that natural environment.
I hope you like the lightweight ones. Insects mostly...
Humans account for about 36 percent of the biomass of all mammals. Domesticated livestock, mostly cows and pigs, account for 60 percent, and wild mammals for only 4 percent.
The same holds true for birds. The biomass of poultry is about three times higher than that of wild birds.
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The study further broke down the human impact on terrestrial and marine mammals. Compared to the time before the human-abetted extinction of large megafauna, wild earth mammal biomass has decreased sevenfold. Marine mammal biomass has decreased fivefold due to commercial whaling and other exploitative hunting practices. Fish biomass has also fallen around 15 percent.
Humans and their livestock have increased the total biomass of mammals by a factor of four and they outweigh all vertebrates besides fish.
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https://www.ecowatch.com/biomass-humans-animals-2571413930.html
I think you worrying, and maybe giving donations to an animal rights advocacy NGO will do nothing at all, and is almost entirely a product of - empathy? Towards animals that to a large extent cant feel an entire range of 'social' emotions, humans do.
If beastiality is outlawed in most countries, why isnt animal advocacy? Touching on the pleasure principle that drives both behaviors, they are basically the same..
But this is just me trolling.. Because I'm bored at the moment.
My actual opinion on this is informed mostly by the thought that every yellow press paper has to have an animal section for old people that feel left alone. I dont know why learning that had such an impact on my world view, but strangely it had..
I also know that 'earth mother' is kind of a psychological 'drive', or a common trope, that some people need to act out to feel fulfilled, its kind of a universal trope, thats like a constant in human history.
Every time I read about the (world famous) Zoo close by where I live, it has to be articles about new babies, of that species, or another being born there, being written about it. So cute. Same pleasure principle as beastiality.
Also love me the 'extinction' crusaders.
More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to have died out. If you make that your 'cause' in life - something like Sisyphus comes to mind.
I'm overly confrontantional for no reason. Again, bored.
But the concepts I bring up are cheeky, because they are logical.
edit: Also some part of me also knows, why biodiversity matters. Maybe I should listen more to that from now on...
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