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Its already a thing. I hunted feral cats in central Queensland along with rabbits and foxes.
I've heard bobcat and mountain lion taste amazing, any info on domestic? I have a deal with my pets, they eat rats, and I don't eat them. They have been doing there part so... Also, they keep my feet warm.
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Humans are as natural as any animal on this planet. Beavers build dams, flooding vast areas and it’s natural. When humans do it, it’s not. Makes zero sense.
Seems like a whataboutism. Is there any other animal outside of humans we see as a serious threat to our habitat, to the extent we are?
What if humans flood the same field?
An even bigger question - if humans didn’t exist, does the earth have any intrinsic value at all?
you haven’t had fun on this planet until you've gone hunting for invasive hogs in florida or texas. stars, night observation devices, suppressed semiautomatic rifles. regardless of your stance on guns or killing things almost as smart as humans, you should give this fun and useful activity a try sometime. you’ll learn some skills and make solid friends along the way.
You should kill pigs regardless of your stance on killing pigs?
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You're free do the research into what the Texas model is actually achieving. States with more amenable conditions for pigs don't have the problem that Texas has. There is a responsible way to manage a population. Shooting pigs to get a kick ain't it.
It’s also deeply concerning how he didn’t make one mention of how dangerous wild boars can be. If you don’t take it down it is 100% going to try and kill you. And they don’t go down that easy.
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How would you make sure the gene edits don't also wipe out the problem in their original habitat too?
This is relatively straightforward. First, introduced species tend to, by definition, not breed with the 'original habitat' population, simply because they're separated by sufficient distances. Second, these types of gene terminator approaches tend to work relatively quickly - several generations, I think, but I've only read about these in insect populations where generations are months not years. Anyway, the fallbac…
By any definition humans are an invasive species. Unfortunately killing our fellow humans has been a competitive sport from time immemorial.
Humans are as natural as any animal on this planet. Beavers build dams, flooding vast areas and it’s natural. When humans do it, it’s not. Makes zero sense.
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Yep. I’m not an opponent of capital punishment for example but wouldn’t want a government executioner to get a hardon while he does it.
Totally opposed to capital punishment, but as long as the person who enjoys the work isn't the person who decides that it needs done it seems fine, maybe even better if they enjoyed it. You probably want the person who isn't going to get PTSD from it carrying it out if minimizing human suffering is the goal. I can't decide if doing the same thing with pedophiles and CP moderation is terrible or not. My gut reaction i…
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This is relatively straightforward. First, introduced species tend to, by definition, not breed with the 'original habitat' population, simply because they're separated by sufficient distances. Second, these types of gene terminator approaches tend to work relatively quickly - several generations, I think, but I've only read about these in insect populations where generations are months not years. Anyway, the fallbac…
Why are the mosquitoes reintroduced? Wouldn't there always be the risk of parasite reinfecting the stock?
This makes me immediately think about the Cobra effect anecdote (or fable?). Basically, the Indian gov't tried to control the snake population by offering a bounty, and people started breeding snakes and killing them for bounty money. Better writeup here: https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/systems-thinking-and-the-cobra-e...
I think the key here is keeping it at hobby levels of funding: a few thousand dollars worth of prizes at sporting events is a motivator for amateurs, a few hundred thousand would bring out professionals.