Current Events > I hate how humanity makes everything extinct

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Everything thats even remotely scary gets completely culled. One instance where it kills a human? Wipe out the species.

Brown Bears used to be common all throughout Western Europe and there were tons of wolves. Now theyre all killed off because they were scary and they ate stuff we like to eat. They were there first.

Then theres the US. Grizzlies are basically extinct in the continental US, outside of Yellowstone and the far, far northwest. Black bear populations are dwindling and wolves are very rare now. We killed off basically every Jaguar. Seriously? Then lets not forget the Thylacine (even though it wasnt in the US). Australia has done their part, too.

Then theres the ocean. Shark populations are depleted so much that many species are seriously threatened. Theyre hunted for fear, revenge, fins, and for trophies. Their general sizes are so much smaller now, too. The world (mostly Asia and South America) overfishes the seas.

Trophy hunters are honestly dogshit human beings who are usually trying to bag a big animal to compensate.

its ok. way its looking, we're heading towards our own extinction event. we'll take a bunch of other things with us, but in 100,000 years it'll be like we never happened.

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Sure, I would love to be hunted down by wild animals every time I stepped outside too.

But whatcha gunna do?

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Alteres posted...

Sure, I would love to be hunted down by wild animals every time I stepped outside too.

But whatcha gunna do?

Do you honestly not think it would be badass to get hunted by a Jaguar?

But seriously, it ridiculous to say, We must kill everything even remotely dangerous because I may or may not want to wander around aimlessly where I know something dangerous lives.

You dont know what it would be like to not be the top of the food chain.

You cant even picture a world where creatures no longer fear you.

You can only see the destruction we have wrought, but the idea of hiding in some dark corner sobbing to yourself as something wicked this way comes is completely foreign.

It may be slight hyperbole, but dont be so quick to judge those who gave you this world

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Alteres posted...

You cant even picture a world where creatures no longer fear you.

Found the person who hasn't spent much time far from paved roads.

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This is why we shouldn't have aspirations to go into space and inhabit other worlds.

We'd wipe out all indigenous species for our own peace of mind.

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vigorm0rtis posted...

Found the person who hasn't spent much time far from paved roads.

Actually quite the opposite for most of CE, who seem to have never left a city.

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Strider102 posted...

This is why we shouldn't have aspirations to go into space and inhabit other worlds.

We'd wipe out all indigenous species for our own peace of mind.

I think we are actually from Mars. I think that Noahs Ark was a space ship filled with a DNA bank that he used to travel to earth (I think he brought more people than we are told).

The evidence strongly suggests that life had former civilizations on the surface. There are structures, art, and even what appear to be trees. I believe that earth already had cephalopods when we got here and maybe a few bugs.

Insert video of monkey trying to beat up bulldozer

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Alteres posted...

Actually quite the opposite for most of CE, who seem to have never left a city.

Maybe. I came up on a farm and have spent a lot of time in deep woods. Aminals are absolutely not afraid of a solitary human being.

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This is gunna sound weird as fuck, but anyway.

I grew up in MN, way outside the cities were it was normal to see bear, coyote, dear, fox, etc (no wolf sadly, and very rare mountain lion). I used to wander out into the woods in my teens at night tripping balls, and the way the animals would react to you would depend on how you moved.

If you went looking for things they hid, if you were skittish some things would follow you.

Just the way the world works.

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Alteres posted...

I used to wander out into the woods in my teens at night tripping balls, and the way the animals would react to you would depend on how you moved.

If you went looking for things they hid, if you were skittish some things would follow you.

Just the way the world works.

how high are you right this second

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Mostly agreed tc.

While I don't like trophy hunting, those rich fucks pay a lot of money to kill something, and that money goes toward conserving wild spaces.

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lol, well aware how it sounds.

Not at all sadly to answer the question.

The point was most people dont head out into the woods at night without a light. If they do they tend to act in a pretty specific way.

I used to get bored as fuck out in the country and would go out at night very messed up, it was fun. Also a little bit educational.

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