Westerners see elephants as pets, said Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose government threatened to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the UK to demonstrate their dangers
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.
How many people do elephants kill?
How many people do people kill?
People suck.
I was going to say- maybe that’s the right attitude?
Elephants are very smart and they aren’t destroying the planet.
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.
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.
They’re doing it to survive. That’s a little different.
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.
There’s about 400,000 elephants and 8 billion humans, it’s not a fair fight.
The amount of people that elephants kill is not 0. Though, most of the human deaths that involve elephants are probably the human’s fault.
And immediately preceeded with the local equivalent of “Hey y’all, watch this!”