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by dafty4 1369 days ago
Don’t plot the amount of wild mammalian biomass, plot the amount of totally mammalian biomass.

Doubt you’ll see a downward hockey stick in that case.

What makes a wild mammal more special than a domestic one?

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Probably diversity, and the fact that they can exist without human oversight.
Nothing, but that doesn't mean they deserve extinction. It'll be a poorer Earth if it's all housecats and no tigers.

What makes us more special than other animals? Also nothing, in my view.

> What makes us more special than other animals? Also nothing, in my view.

If you really believe that then you should go live out in a field and eat grass like oxen rather than writing that comment on the internet. If humans aren't more special, then nothing is special at all.