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sapphia · 2 years ago

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this is such a weird take, framing species-wide extinction and competition between humans and other species as like… a symptom of a specific society and not an issue with growing societies of any type, as they use more and more resources (usually badly) and change the environment to suit their own needs at the expense of other animals, often without even realising it or understanding the negative consequences.

Actually your society is the freaks for shooting everything that moves and burning half your "nature reserves" every year so that upperclass dandies can eat leaded pheasant. North Americans are the well adjusted ones here, your country has become a desolate suburban lawn in island form

#idk there are indigenous societies that have hunted to extinction and plenty of other extinctions caused by humans #the original post isn’t criticising americans. just commenting on how wild those experiences are #as someone from a country that didn’t HAVE predators i can relate to the surprise #i don’t think there’s a need to be a dick to the person saying it. they’re aware of why it happened. they’re not saying it’s a good thing #america has more predators coz it’s fucking huge and the population hadn’t risen enough to wipe them all out #unlike the UK which is a small island #there’s a particular smugness to this post which i think as an american you haven’t really earned #like you hunted non-predators to extinction #just coz you didn’t like them #let’s not throw stones through our own windows please

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