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30 Jun 2021 Conversations with Tyler Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way
“The scale of cat death — I don’t know the numbers, but way more birds are killed by cats than are killed by all the wind power in America.”
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- Richard Prum
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- 30 Jun 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…But if we don’t know how to make the tradeoffs, how do we know it’s wrong? Well, because that is really, really clear. You have concocted, created an artificial predator that you’re keeping really happy and healthy, and feeding it, and keeping it in a peak condition, so that you can have it go outside and entertain itself, and its entertainment is damaging to the world. The scale of cat death — I don’t know the numbers, but way more birds are killed by cats than are killed by all the wind power in America. It’s devastating. It’s billions of birds. I read an estimate recently. It did not seem to be scientifically serious, but it suggested that a billion birds die each year just by crashing into human things. Is it plausible that the number is that high?…
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