Friday Fun: Apocalypse Meow
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And here we've been obsessing over carbon footprints and plastic bags when when the true enemy of the enviroment was right under our noses.
Domestic cats, officially considered an invasive species, kill at least a hundred million birds in the US every year—dwarfing the number killed by wind turbines. They’re also responsible for at least 33 avian extinctions worldwide. A recent Smithsonian Institution study found that cats caused 79 percent of deaths of juvenile catbirds in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Bad news, since birds are key to protecting ecosystems from the stresses of climate change—a 2010 study found that they save plants from marauding insects that proliferate as the world warms.
Now as this is a "Fun" thread I'll leave the parsing of logical flaws, and general sillyness that is Mother Jones to the audience but it does confirm something I have always suspected, that "Crazy Cat Ladies" are Enemies of Man-kind.
Domestic cats, officially considered an invasive species, kill at least a hundred million birds in the US every year—dwarfing the number killed by wind turbines. They’re also responsible for at least 33 avian extinctions worldwide. A recent Smithsonian Institution study found that cats caused 79 percent of deaths of juvenile catbirds in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Bad news, since birds are key to protecting ecosystems from the stresses of climate change—a 2010 study found that they save plants from marauding insects that proliferate as the world warms.
Now as this is a "Fun" thread I'll leave the parsing of logical flaws, and general sillyness that is Mother Jones to the audience but it does confirm something I have always suspected, that "Crazy Cat Ladies" are Enemies of Man-kind.
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Date: 29/7/11 23:02 (UTC)Nasty creepy things cats.
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Date: 30/7/11 02:11 (UTC)Have you got any more info on this? This would be awesome.