An American millionaire big-game hunter has died after being crushed by a group of elephants during a hunting expedition in Gabon.

  • hayvan@piefed.world
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    When prey animals are “saved” from their natural predators, they tend to over reproduce and wreak havoc on their environment. Deer in North America is an example that needs to be controlled.

    Is don’t know to what extent though.

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      22 小时前

      deer reproduce very fast, elephants take 22months to gestate a baby, big cats like wise. the forest elephant which is a different species is pretty at risk.

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      When prey animals are “saved” from their natural predators, they tend to over reproduce and wreak havoc on their environment.

      Exactly…

      When corrupt capitalists are “saved” from taxation, they tend to hoard wealth and wreck havoc on the economy. Drastically lowering not only everyone else’s quality of life, but in many cases their physical health and well-being along with everyone they know and interact with

      It’s a classic trolly problem.

      Track one: about 8,300,000,000 people

      Track 2: 3,500 people that aimed the trolleybat track 1.

      Would you turn the switch back so it saves 8.3 billion people, at the expense of of the less than 4 thousand people that put us in front of the trolley?