Sri Lanka: Elephants Keep Dying from Eating Plastic (But My Carbon Tho)

When you think about it, this is actually a good thing.

Elephants are big animals who produce a lot of carbon farts.

Fewer elephants = fewer farts = less swamp ass for Greta = WINNING

AP News:

Conservationists and veterinarians are warning that plastic waste in an open landfill in eastern Sri Lanka is killing elephants in the region, after two more were found dead over the weekend.

Around 20 elephants have died over the last eight years after consuming plastic trash in the dump in Pallakkadu village in Ampara district, about 210 kilometers (130 miles) east of the capital, Colombo.

Examinations of the dead animals showed they had swallowed large amounts of nondegradable plastic that is found in the garbage dump, wildlife veterinarian Nihal Pushpakumara said.

“Polythene, food wrappers, plastic, other non-digestibles and water were the only things we could see in the post mortems. The normal food that elephants eat and digest was not evident,” he said.

Elephants are revered in Sri Lanka but are also endangered. Their numbers have dwindled from about 14,000 in the 19th century to 6,000 in 2011, according to the country’s first elephant census.

They are increasingly vulnerable because of the loss and degradation of their natural habitat. Many venture closer to human settlements in search of food, and some are killed by poachers or farmers angry over damage to their crops.

Hungry elephants seek out the waste in the landfill, consuming plastic as well as sharp objects that damage their digestive systems, Pushpakumara said.

“The elephants then stop eating and become too weak to keep their heavy frames upright. When that happens, they can’t consume food or water, which quickens their death,” he said.

In 2017, the government announced that it will recycle the garbage in dumps near wildlife zones to prevent elephants from consuming plastic waste. It also said electric fences would be erected around the sites to keep the animals away. But neither has been fully implemented.

There are 54 waste dumps in wildlife zones around the country, with around 300 elephants roaming near them, according to officials.

The waste management site in Pallakkadu village was set up in 2008 with aid from the European Union. Garbage collected from nine nearby villages is being dumped there but is not being recycled.

Yeah, keep building “green infrastructure” for India with US taxpayer dollars. It will work, eventually.

It’s amazing the way the environmental movement has transformed into a global warming cult that now only cares about stopping the production of carbon, which is actually the gas of life and helpful to the earth.

They’ve completely stopped caring about dead elephants and plastic.

I’m kinda more worried about myself than I am about elephants

I would wager the number of people talking about plastic is probably at least a million times smaller than the number of people talking about global warming. If you ever hear them mention plastic, they just do it in passing, and focus on moronic little things like straws.

(Meanwhile, they ARE actually against nuclear power – despite the fact it doesn’t produce the dreaded carbon gas – so, figure that out. It looks to me like a huge program to just completely destroy civilization, rather than prevent some imaginary swamp ass heat apocalypse.)

It’s maybe not really that surprising that people who are ostensibly devoted to some cause are getting totally flipped into another direction. I saw this when the old Alt-Right turned into a neo-Nazi cult that now focuses exclusively on weird non-issues instead of actually trying to reach out to normal white people. These people were actually pushing lockdowns and vaccines – things which obviously hurt normal white people, badly – in the same way that environmentalists promote totally environmentally destructive electric cars and windmills.

People will really just go along with whatever, and once you identify as part of a group, you probably won’t notice when the entire movement is taken over by bad actors.

I’ve had conversations with old hippies about the whole global warming thing verses plastic and conservation issues, I’ve talked about the real (non-carbon) pollution produced by electric cars and so-called “green energy.” I’ve talked to them about the abandonment of conservation programs. They are old enough to remember a time before the invention of the global warming theory, when people were making completely different arguments about the destruction of the actual, physical natural world, instead of babbling about the invisible threat of an invisible gas and flashing around weaponized graphs.

I’ll mention that the UN could easily be giving third world countries money to stop destroying natural environments instead of trying to build moronic, useless, and very expensive “green infrastructure.” They could take out leases on forests in the third world and ban deforestation, if “preserving biodiversity” was an actual priority.

I’ll mention the total destruction of the food supply, the spread of Monsanto chemicals everywhere – in our food and into the ground and water.

The old hippie will agree with me, and then I’ll say “so why are we only talking about carbon dioxide and global warming, which is at best a very tenuous theory?”

Then their eyes will just glass over and they’ll try to change the subject.