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Yes, it was new to me as well. It's not only bizarre to you. To me it sounds gruesome. We kill without thought until a species is almost extinct. Suddenly we care. Isn't that similar to torture but make sure they don't die?

Oh yeah, this is definitely hot! Shoot me up there into the endless fediverse! It's time to discover all those niche galaxies riding a nice vessel!

Huh? Do you really think, every parent has a bathtub or access to one?

All you need is a plastic bowl from the kitchen and luke warm water.

Yeah it doesn't maker sense to me, either. When there is one in my feed I just block the account and scroll on.

Naja, das ist doch nicht der erste Artikel zum Thema. In diesem Artikel steht, dass 200 Mio womöglich zu hoch angesetzt ist und dass man diese nicht klar auf Katzen schieben kann, dazu müsste man Bevölkerungszahlen von Vögeln und so ermitteln. Dennoch bestreitet der Artikel nicht, dass Katzen ihre Umwelt beeinflussen.

Ich fand den Titel halt interessant. "Gefährdet die Katze die Artenvielfalt?" Wenn, dann nur, weil der Mensch sie bei sich hält.

Jeden Tag sterben Tiere aus in einer Geschwindigkeit schneller als historische Massensterben. Dafür sind wir Menschen verantwortlich und darauf wollte ich hinweisen.

Ich denke, dass es eigentlich relativ klar ist, dass Hauskatzen die Artenvielfalt bedroht.

Bevor wir allerdings Finger zeigen: die Spezies, bei der die Hauskatze wohnt, bedroht viel mehr die Artenvielfalt!

My initial post wasn't about not changing or not accepting what is heading towards us. It was more a try of explanation why we are soon slow in reacting to this crisis.

I believe technology will improve, but we are simply not there yet to just replace fossil fuels and having no impact on the standard of living.

I am on one page with you, we need to change, fast! If it is not too late already, but anyway, change, change, change!

If we still got time for it, we've got about a single shot at this.

I totally agree with you. Not going for change now will make everything only worse.

Still, doing nothing compared to changing now will save a couple of dollar here and there for a couple of years and that seems to be what most people look at.

Especially in politics, politicians want to get reelected next term, so it's preferred to work on issues that can be helped within a few years, not something we need to invest now, but impact will be after next election.

I don't say it's right, it is just the way it is and I believe that this is contributing to why we still go the wrong way.

Go out on the streets and ask the people if they are ready to make a sacrifice today so they'll be less hurt in future.

If you ask me, yeah, go ahead! Stop subsiding fossil fuels, maybe even restrict nutrition, invest in renewables and education and finally put higher tax on wealthy people while changing the electric grid and the way we consume!

That is precisely part of why the problem we face is so massive.

We have solutions for climate change, but implementing those means we can't keep our standard of living.

It's also a problem in rich democratic countries, because you don't win majorities with a politic of degrowth.

So we hold tight on the hope of future technology being able to save us without reducing our living standard. We have been waiting for decades and time is running out fast.

Das klingt sehr interessant, das muss ich mir mal später durchlesen!

Meine Meinung war immer: Es gibt natürlich Rechtsextreme und Ausländerfeinde, aber die AfD wäre nicht halb so groß, wenn man Armut, soziale Ungerechtigkeiten und Perspektivlosigkeit mindern würde. Zumindest nach dem "Abstrakt" dieser Studie liege ich damit falsch.

I've been reading the original study but I must admit that I had problems understanding it.

This is an article written by the guys who did the study and now just publishing their results in a way common dumb people like me understand, too.

No, nothing has "infested" Lemmy. It's just that many people understand, that rails are much more efficient than roads and that individual traffic on large scale has no future. At least if you want our future to be survivable.