I was thinking about how the buffalo were massacred today. I saw a post showing how big a skinned buffalo was when hanging. Thought about 3000 lbs of meat.
Now imagine 60 million of them; 5-10x more than there are Canada geese.
What a tremendous waste of food, a horrific crime against nature and an insane reduction in biomass. Wildlife biomass today is a fraction of what the herds alone accounted for
Yeah, I get the politics and genocide and all that. I get it. But the waste, the utter destruction of the ecosystem!
I could go on and on, too depressing. Since I was born 74% of the animals on the planet are gone. Just disappeared. Young people cannot grasp what they've been robbed of, the depth of the tragedy.
When I talk to other middle-aged guys, they're shocked. "Remember when...?" Hell, even younger people are blown out when I ask, "Remember 5-years ago when...?"
I've seen the ecosystem crash on my fucking front porch in 5-years. Am I'm fighting like hell to being it back!
Anyway, saw a green tree frog for the first time in 4 years! 🎉
I mean, many of those racist assholes raised children who they made in to racist assholes, and they killed many people, too. So... there are quite a few people who should care about those racist assholes regardless of politocal leanings.
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Chronographs@lemmy.zip · 83 pts · 300d
And then there’s, you know, the native americans
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 37 pts · 300d
I was thinking about how the buffalo were massacred today. I saw a post showing how big a skinned buffalo was when hanging. Thought about 3000 lbs of meat.
Now imagine 60 million of them; 5-10x more than there are Canada geese.
What a tremendous waste of food, a horrific crime against nature and an insane reduction in biomass. Wildlife biomass today is a fraction of what the herds alone accounted for
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 300d
Unfortunately, back then, two and only two facts mattered:
There was land to be taken and profit to be made. The buffalo were just in the way.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 300d
Love the way you think. We should be friends.
Yeah, I get the politics and genocide and all that. I get it. But the waste, the utter destruction of the ecosystem!
I could go on and on, too depressing. Since I was born 74% of the animals on the planet are gone. Just disappeared. Young people cannot grasp what they've been robbed of, the depth of the tragedy.
When I talk to other middle-aged guys, they're shocked. "Remember when...?" Hell, even younger people are blown out when I ask, "Remember 5-years ago when...?"
I've seen the ecosystem crash on my fucking front porch in 5-years. Am I'm fighting like hell to being it back!
Anyway, saw a green tree frog for the first time in 4 years! 🎉
Zorque@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 300d
Hey now, they got casinos and crippling alcoholism!
PlexSheep@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 300d
Well most of them aren't there anymore
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 12 pts · 300d
Someone doesn't remember the Alamo.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 300d
As a Texan, its over rated.
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 300d
Who gives a fuck about some racist assholes that died.
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 9 pts · 300d
I mean, many of those racist assholes raised children who they made in to racist assholes, and they killed many people, too. So... there are quite a few people who should care about those racist assholes regardless of politocal leanings.
rafoix@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 300d
The Alamo? When Mexico went to war against slave owners trying to steal land.
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 2 pts · 300d
Yes, and the OP is about other countries getting paid for land instead.
Horsecook@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 300d
PugJesus@piefed.social · 3 pts · 300d
I mean, they got paid for a sliver of unrelated land, not the huge mass that was annexed in the Mexican-American War.
Horsecook@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 300d
PugJesus@piefed.social · 1 pts · 300d
Huh, TIL
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d
They paid by taking Texas