Related: While Government Officials Spent 5 Years Planning, Beavers Built their Dam for Free in 48 Hours:
https://boingboing.net/2025/02/05/while-government-officials...
Now, if we could just train beavers to build affordable housing...
https://boingboing.net/2025/02/05/while-government-officials...
Now, if we could just train beavers to build affordable housing...
Contractors' quotes 5x higher than for private buildings? Send a brown bear to talk to 'em.
Limited government funding? Send a wild boar to budget meetings.
Restrictive zoning laws? Put a mountain lion in the room at the next zoning review.
NIMBYs don't want affordable housing? Wolves roam their neighborhood until NIMBYs agree to allow new housing.
Lengthy approval process? A honey badger asks for approval.
Economic disparity between rising housing costs and stagnant wages? Moose roams around in businesses until wages raise.
800+ kg of stubborn disagreement.
In the human population though the natural selection (i.e. whose children are going to be more successful?) seems in the current environment to favor the strategy of hoarding resources to yourself and denying them to the others.
Now, with modern permits, etc, these projects take 5-10 years, $10M’s and have significant environmental impact.
As a direct result, every few years, people around here burn to death or lose their homes or whatever.
So, everyone is less safe, and the environment suffers.
Also, I make jokes about beavers, because it’s better than crying.
That could potentially lead to some downsides.