We should care about all the species on earth. We have an interconnected food chain that is currently collapsing, enough of it goes, and we won’t even be able to grow crops.
For the little guys.
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NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 day ago
gnutrino@programming.dev 23 hours ago
Nah, we’re strutting around like we’re the first mass extinction event the planet’s seen. The K-T asteroid didn’t worry itself with random moths, why should we?
Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 21 hours ago
It’s the first mass extinction event caused by one of the affected species.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Except mosquitoes please. Fuck those guys until death kills them dead.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dragonflys, bats and many other animals rely on that as a food source, then other animals rely on the animals eating mosquitoes. Mosquitoes also spread disease which can act as a natural population control for some species. Everything is interconnected in ecosystems. The animals present, the temperature and chemistry of the water, the depth and nutrition of the soil, the plants that grow there. A minor change can ripple throughout the ecosystem and cause major consequences long term. Some of those changes occur naturally, but for the most part humans change ecosystems faster than they can naturally react.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hard agree. It’s the one extinction event I’ll make an exception for
Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
During the huge fires in Australia in 2019/2020, the Kangaroo Island “Pelican” Assassin Spider vanished because their entire habitat burned. Only 2 have been seen since the fire… but none in the last 4 years.
But no, no, climate change isn’t real… humans totally aren’t the problem…
Assassin spiders have been here for 135 million years, and now they’re being annihilated in the only 3 places the entire planet they still cling to life.
I don’t even like most spiders, but I saw scientists risking their lives to try and save insects and arachnids that only existed in those parts of Australia, because no one would try to help them, like they would a cute Joey. No one cared. I knew I needed to spread the word, so every time posts like this come up, I mention the Pelican Spider. It’s absolutely HORRIFYING to look at, but it deserves to live and be safe
secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
“Hey Bro, you’re really such a pussy you’re going to leave this coalmine because the canary died? I’m an alpha bro, don’t be such a beta.”
Now apply this to literally the entire fucking world. This is our current reality.
theblips@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
There’s something to be said about choosing not to care about some stuff, though. Being constantly contemplating every single crisis in the world and worrying equally about them all will be damaging to your mental health… And these days there are more pressing issues than the moths to me. It’s not that I don’t value them
ksh@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
Ironically being in nature has cured many peoples’ mental health and some recognised this and started protecting local biodiversity as a response by taking action locally. The attitude to not care is not helpful.
kapulsa@feddit.org 18 hours ago
That’s why we need to change the system. By being flooded with crises, we get separated and lose sight of the bigger picture. Many of the crises ate actually caused by the same things. Capitalism, greed, “conservatives”, corruption, the ultra rich. Whatever you want to call them.
theblips@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
How will any system fjx this, though? There will always be disasters, hunger, war, crime…
TTH4P@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Didn’t we JUST have moth-ers day too?
Neuromorph@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
Just claim it pollinate vanilla or coffee. People will start to care
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Every day I worry about the Devil’s Pupfish. I’d like to see them one day, but I can understand why tourists aren’t allowed anywhere near the single pool where they still live.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 16 hours ago
Damn, I didn’t expect to get a soundtrack accompaniment to my science meme. I really enjoyed this, thank you for sharing it with us.
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Chickens, cows, pigs, and sheep would be extinct if we had no use for them.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Actually not even close to true for chickens. The Red Junglefowl, the species that gave rise to the domesticated chicken, is classified as Least Concern. As is the Grey Junglefowl, the Sri Lankan Junglefowl, and the Green Junglefowl that contributed to the gene pool. If you’re talking about Gallus gallus domesticus itself, then I think that gets a fair bit murkier as they never did survive on their own in the wild. However, with a population of 26.5 Billion in 2023, I think it would take a lot for them to go extinct, and it certainly wouldn’t happen overnight. It really varies in my opinion. Obviously species bred for meat consumption or cage eggs are going to struggle to survive on their own. But I have a Bantum hen that looks and acts like a Junglefowl, being able to clear fly over a 6ft tall person. She’s able to nest up high for the night, and is near impossible to catch. I strongly believe she’d manage to survive in the wild quite easily.
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
in addition pigs can survive on their own and in the colonial era they were often left on islands when ships landed and when another ship landed the local ecosystems would be decimated by the pigs as they would outcompete local species.
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I should have been clearer. If we didn’t domesticate and have use for them then they would have been hunted to extinction long ago.
If we stopped eating eggs and eating chicken for some reason then the domestic chicken wouldn’t be around anymore. They would kill off what is left in farms since they wouldn’t make profit off them, then they would be gone.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
They would be a different type of animal, like dogs and wolf. Domestication is a hell of a drug.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Can wild pigs even physically die?
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 23 hours ago
I once watched this nature documentary named “Princess Mononoke” and can confirm that wild pigs continue to live on even after physical death.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Value is not what is in the present but what could be in the future.
OpenStars@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Unfortunately not all share this assessment 😭
Gamechanger@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Enough people do care but we have to fight for everything to safe something.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 hours ago
Just make them cute. 🤷🏻♂️
ksh@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
That will just make ransoms want to own them and eliminate from the wild
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 1 day ago
They are all different, not cut from the same moth, if you will.
OpenStars@piefed.social 23 hours ago
Can someone do this then for humanity? 😯 We may start to struggle ourselves in the coming future...
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I’d imagine for most creatures the food chain collapse part is a relevant reason.
SaltSong@startrek.website 1 day ago
We should be concerned about endangered moths. Hard enough to get people to care about other people.
flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I’m glad this was your takeaway as well because it felt to me like the second person was belittling the first, and… they really should shut the fuck up.
Zorcron@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
To alleviate that feeling: they’re the same person.