An orangutan having a lovely stroll through his habitat.

Well now I’m sad

yeah, this one hit me hard.
Sadness and depression are my default states.
- Have you considered drugs
I was going to say depressed not I guess I'm more numb at this point.

That's the most depressing thing I've seen all day, and I've been doomscrolling since I woke up.

Highly relevant Calvin and Hobbes from this day 37 years ago: https://sh.itjust.works/post/16484504

What am I supposed to do about this?

I don’t have an excess of money I can donate to conservation. I can email my local politician but what’s that realistically going to accomplish?

I have no power to change this, but it just makes me feel shitty.

Kill your local billionaire. Lol
- My lawyer has advised me not to do this.
- Nono, don't do that.
  
  Eat them instead
Avoid products with palm oil. Orangutan habitat gets razed and replaced by palm oil plantations.
- Palm oil gives the most yield per acre of any vegetable oil. Replacing it would actually encourage even more deforestation
Dismantle capitalism or end resource scarcity those are really the only options.
- Far easier would be stopping the use of products made using resources that are created by this
  
  Commonly in this case would be palm oil
- Yeah we need to dismantle our entire economic system in order to prevent deforestation /s
  
  Downvotes incoming, proper regulation is the actual realistic solution
You can not buy products from the country doing this.
- Or from any of the companies that have that country's resources in their supply chains. It's hard for ordinary people to know what to do. Buying less stuff altogether isn't a bad place to start though.
- Good luck not buying soap, toothpaste, or shampoo. Palm oil is used in damn near everything today since it’s the most oil/acre around today.
You could come to Atlanta and help stop Cop City, as long as you don't mind getting murdered or [blatantly over-]charged with terrorism for occupying a forest.
Yeah it’s fucking shit I’ll let you know if I think of anything. Probably will eventually idk 🤷🏻‍♂️
Don't you see? Falling into depression and learned helplessness is doing something.

/s

can we all overthrow our govts and destory the corporations and kill all billionaires please

i hate overthrowing and all that like i'll do it if that's what we're doing but it's just so much work and i rly like shopping

What if we give the other great apes the knowledge of agriculture?

This is how a supervillain is born

Malaysia and Indonesia don't give a fuck. Not like any of us can do anything about it.

If we stop buying their goods in the West it's all going to go to China anyway.

Our best bet is to take their DNA and maybe years in the future we can do something. Short of protecting that land with guns this will keep going on.

If I ever win the Powerball, I'm going to disappear, and spend my time hunting poachers and rainforest loggers.

This photo is going to be on textbooks in a few years. Well, if we are still hoing to have textbooks in a few years.

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