Reposted by SpooKique
¿Habéis oido hablar alguna vez de las “profecías autocumplidas”? 👀
Es la tendencia al inmovilismo ante un evento que consideramos que va a tener un desenlace catastrófico. Muchas veces es esa misma inacción la que impide cambiar el curso de las cosas, lo que hace que sintamos que teníamos razón y +
![vintagewildlife :waning_gibbous_moon_emoji: on Threads:
""I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, being spent on species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?"
[a person holding a large black stick insect]
"This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreig3xo7ppr35n5ywwqnxltipalv6zthpkyba2d2ahtcyo2aeyptg3m)
