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Europeans care more about elephants than people, says Botswana president (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

I was going to say- maybe that's the right attitude?

Elephants are very smart and they aren't destroying the planet.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Yeah, this is definitely a "he's making a point, just not the point he wants to make" kinda thing. Maybe if he said that Europeans care more about elephants than they do about Africans, it would have been a little clearer.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago

To be fair, elephants would if they could. They're known for knocking down trees so that they can eat the foliage. Turns out they knock down more trees than humans do in the African savanna.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

They're doing it to survive. That's a little different.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

How about globally? Elephants knocking down more trees than humans? What is it, like, 50/50? 60/40?

Did you know elephants clearcut the rainforest to raise cattle? And they invented crack! Heck, they’d vote Democrat if we’d let ‘em.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago

There's about 400,000 elephants and 8 billion humans, it's not a fair fight.

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