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ysabetwordsmithThis year in Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I'll be posting questions from the new 2024 questionnaire that I made. If you like the questions, feel free to follow along. You can post your answers in a comment below, or make a post in your own blog and link to it in a comment.
Question 19: How would you spend $1,000 to give the most happiness to the most number of people possible?
Plant native species in a park to attract as many birds as possible, since they are less interested in exotic plants. Start with a locally appropriate oak if there isn't one yet, as they support thousands of other species. Reserve a portion to add a small water feature if the park doesn't already have one. That would make thousands of birds really happy, along with other wildlife.
And the more bird species in an area, the happier the humans are too.
Yes, I think of "people" as more than just "humans."
Question 19: How would you spend $1,000 to give the most happiness to the most number of people possible?
Plant native species in a park to attract as many birds as possible, since they are less interested in exotic plants. Start with a locally appropriate oak if there isn't one yet, as they support thousands of other species. Reserve a portion to add a small water feature if the park doesn't already have one. That would make thousands of birds really happy, along with other wildlife.
And the more bird species in an area, the happier the humans are too.
Yes, I think of "people" as more than just "humans."
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Date: 2024-05-13 09:22 pm (UTC)Yes, thank you! Every time someone refers only to humans as "people" I grit my teeth as it's a pet peeve of mine.
And I'm always reminded of the line in Pocahontas's song "you think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you..."
You're welcome!
Date: 2024-05-14 06:14 am (UTC)Agreed. And I'm honestly a lot more fond of nonhumans than I am of the species cooking off the atmosphere. >_<
>> And I'm always reminded of the line in Pocahontas's song "you think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you..." <<
Yeah, humans are weird that way. Me, I'm not going to identify with someone just because their meat bears a superficial resemblance to what I'm wearing in the moment. It drove my teachers crazy in school. They'd start going on about "explorers" and I'd say "genocidal maniacs," or great presidents and I'd say "slavers." So what if they had low melanin and so does this body? Biology is not politics.