Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoHumans are the most invasive species on the planetmessage-squaremessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down110
arrow-up1104arrow-down1message-squareHumans are the most invasive species on the planetChainweasel@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square25linkfedilink
minus-squarethenextguy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·2 years agoHis speech about humans being the only life that simply expands until all resources are used up is not at all true. Most living things do this until or unless they have some kind of predator or competitor to keep them in check.
minus-squareBeatTakeshi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoWell a lion doesn’t have a predator (besides us) and doesn’t kill for pleasure then waste a whole antelope
minus-squareahornsirup@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoLions might not, but housecats do. Bears are also known to be very wasteful with the salmon they catch.
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoLions tend to be bad enough at hunting that that is their population control lever.
minus-squarethenextguy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoSure. I said most living things. Not all.
Haven’t seen The Matrix, huh?
His speech about humans being the only life that simply expands until all resources are used up is not at all true. Most living things do this until or unless they have some kind of predator or competitor to keep them in check.
But… it’s the smell.
I feel saturated…by it.
Well a lion doesn’t have a predator (besides us) and doesn’t kill for pleasure then waste a whole antelope
Lions might not, but housecats do. Bears are also known to be very wasteful with the salmon they catch.
Lions tend to be bad enough at hunting that that is their population control lever.
Sure. I said most living things. Not all.