In Nome, where the muskoxen roam controversially
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Of course, Curtis Worland's death is a tragedy, and my heart goes out to his loved ones. But danger is a part of life, and humans simply don't belong everywhere. There's precious little space remaining on the planet for wildlife.
In the past 40 years, Earth has lost fully HALF its wildlife (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/earth-lo...) and 97% of Earth’s land area may no longer be ecologically intact (https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2021/04/15/97-of-earths-lan...).
Sometimes, we have to decide that the animals have the right to defend themselves, even when it means fatal risks to the humans intruding on their habitat.
What seems to be the issue is the humans aren’t being allowed to appropriately defend themselves. Humans and megafauna can cohabitate, but it’s not always sunshine and kisses. You can allow people to be territorial without putting them in unreasonable danger or massacring the wildlife.
A lot of city folk are pretty delusional about animals. Plenty of rural folk are as well. Mutual respect of nature means participating in it and that isn’t always free of violence but it can be done responsibly. People have to actually understand what reasonably means though.
Muskoxen misophonia!
I vote that we finally retire the term "yak shaving" and replace it with "fighting muskoxen".
As in you want to create a personal blog so you first have to set up a VM, research static site generators, try to get random ruby gems to work, then figure CI/CD on Github actions, and before you know it you're in the Alaskan tundra fighting muskoxen.
How about "musk fighting"?
Cartons get more expensive at $3.49/L from the same brand and same fat percentage, for some reason (I doubt the packaging overhead's that much).