• AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    People are taking this really personally, the chart isn’t even throwing shade at cats. It’s saying look how small this is compared to something basically no one cares about in the US. Domestic and the resulting feral cats are a human created invasive species issue that way worse and more destructive than we give it credit for because we love cats.

    I’m tangentially involved enough in local spay/neuter programs and you can see these consequences locally wherever you live.

    Like I love cats, I have 4 indoor, no outdoor animals, but people are really trying to act like feral cat predation is no big deal. It is a huge deal, we just don’t care, and if we don’t care about a billion birds getting killed by cats, and a quarter billion by windows, why the hell would we care about the 7 that windmills killed in comparison.

    Wind turbines kill as many birds in the US as the feral cats in my COUNTY do.