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
I’m not blaming the ancient Greeks or the ancient Americans. They, as you said, knew no better. I’m blaming the modern Europeans (and North Americans) for not re-introducing these animals to their lands, and expecting Africans to do everything.
I’m sure they’d be overjoyed to go to a place where thich cares so much about them! (Also, what about the Botswanans you’re asking to move out of their ancestral lands?)
I’m not blaming the ancient Greeks or the ancient Americans. They, as you said, knew no better. I’m blaming the modern Europeans (and North Americans) for not re-introducing these animals to their lands, and expecting Africans to do everything.
I’m sure the elephants would be thrilled to have their biome arbitrarily swapped out from under their feet 🙄
I’m sure they’d be overjoyed to go to a place where thich cares so much about them! (Also, what about the Botswanans you’re asking to move out of their ancestral lands?)
Just for the record, nowhere did I argue for moving Botswanans out of their land.
Fair. But Botswana is facing a water crisis, so unless something is done there is going to be a conflict.
Yes. Which is why I’m arguing for the global north to subsidize the global south.