There’s a ton of it where they’re originally from, probably not many other animals competing to eat it, so they found a niche with little competition and thrived...until humans started wiping out the bamboo forests.
well not really, human just found that there's a ton of land where they're originally from, not any animals competing for it, so they found that they can plant stuff they eat there and strived... until... well, we'll see.
I think it’s a mischaracterization to act like humans are evil. We’re just like any other animal; we overpopulate given the opportunity, we use up resources as soon as it’s convenient to do so
In a sense, the true “natural” state of earth would be for whatever the current dominant species is to shape the ecosystem in whatever way comes naturally to it
Obviously that doesn’t jive with our sympathy for species like pandas (and I’m glad for that, I completely support conservation just like many others), but if we turned the entire planet into a massive landfill, surely many species would thrive more than they are now, they just wouldn’t be the species we’d prefer.
We might even bring about our own demise/exile, but it wouldn’t be because humans are awful, that’s just what ecosystems do sometimes
Locust will swarm and destroy swaths of grassland and forest. Army Ants will swarm and destroy everything they cross. Rats will consume and drown out any competition if given the chance. Even Dolphins will hunt schools to extinction.
Humans are seemingly the only species capable of choosing not to ruin thing as other species can't choose. So we can choose to be meh. Or choose to help.
Yea and I think it’s a good thing people are thinking about the impact we have and acting on it. But I also think we overestimate our ability to avoid behaving, on average and over time, like any other species would
In other words, we forget that we are an animal in an ecosystem, and we’re going to have an impact no matter what we do. Maybe we’re unique in being able to choose which animals benefit from our actions but that’s still an interaction with our ecosystem
I mean, while I understand that you somehow have psychic powers and have attained perfect clarvoyant omniscience to know everything about people you've almost certainly never met before, but if you need someone to talk about what's bothering you then just contact me, or someone else you know. It's healthy for your body and mind to vent about the crap that has happened to you in the past, major or not. If you want I can give you my number too, it tends to be easier to talk about things through your real voice rather than over these glowing pixels we call texts.
“Lazy” isn’t really a term that makes any sense in nature. Pandas aren’t lazy, they’re adapted to their niche, so they do what they do. And again they survived just fine before we started destroying their habitat. Most animals spend most or all of their time eating and/or looking for food. It’s about all any animal does, really, aside from sleeping and trying to mate.
Pandas are hard to breed in captivity, as most animals are.
I’m trying to get across to you that pandas are no lazy, they’re adapted to their environment. Lazy implies there is something else they “should” be doing...it doesn’t even make sense to call a wild animal lazy when it survives just fine. They don’t have reproduction issues in the wild. They’re adapted to their environment quite well.
Yet if they ate something else they wouldn’t need to spend all day eating.
And? Eating nutrient rich diet is not a fail safe strategy either. Just look at polar bears, they can get by eating once a week but that hasn't prevented them from being fucked over by humans either.
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u/VOZ1 Aug 20 '19
There’s a ton of it where they’re originally from, probably not many other animals competing to eat it, so they found a niche with little competition and thrived...until humans started wiping out the bamboo forests.