TIL that whales were saved from massacre when kerosene appeared (1860s) because, until then, whale oil was widely used as illumination fuel.
TIL that whales were saved from massacre when kerosene appeared (1860s) because, until then, whale oil was widely used as illumination fuel.
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It's crazy to think that we almost brought a class of animals to extinction, all because we had the arrogance to read in the dark.
Americans killed off the bison because indians liked them.
That wins. The pettiest motive.
Rome vs Carthage. Romans beat them up then poured tons of salt on the fields so that they could never grow crops and rebuild. Just to be mean.
The salting was metaphorical in Rome's case, but both were deliberate genocides. It wasn't about "liking" buffalo, the extermination campaign was started because the Plains tribes needed buffalo. The public wouldn't tolerate an outright genocide, but they would tolerate the destruction of the herds.
At least it's been brought back from extinction thanks to conservation efforts.
We’ve killed off many other species simply by existing and expanding. And even more with what we do to the environment constantly.
Wait till you lean his many species go extinct per year. We're currently in the middle of a mass extinction era, mostly caused by human industrialization