I think we should ban pets. The planet is dying.
The damage is the big problem here, not the behavioral causes.
Zoos don't exist to conserve endangered animals. They exist to create an emotional connection between endangered animals and humans. Which someone else can use to provoke you to act on your stated but never demonstrated belief in protecting the natural world.
Taking humans out of nature is why we are so fucked up now. Getting rid of pets would put many people into the completely sterile category. Why do I need nature? What's it ever done for me? Nothing.
It’s another zoo, without cages.
https://dnews.com/life/north-korea-s-kim-and-and-his-dog-ban...
Silly problem just to show how silly the OP's argument is: putting a plant indoors now means it costs carbon to keep it living--I have to water it, but that water doesn't come for free and depends on a vast pipeline of industrialization to extract water, pump it to my home, and then build containers for me to hold the water and drip it on my indoor plants. It would be better to just cut that chain entirely and let plants get water from rain directly... by not being indoor houseplants.
Tbh I'm kind of sick of every thread about the environment being filled with comments about completely insignificant things while the obvious and massive improvements are sitting in front of our faces. If most countries implemented a carbon tax and did literally nothing else, it would be a monumental improvement. When tested in Australia, it was economically and environmentally a massive success. It was just destroyed politically by newscorp.
Although he did also say “geoengineering is the only known way that we could hope to lower the earth’s temperature within years or even decades without crippling the economy.”, which is a bit concerning