<\/p>\n
There are 275 reported dead elephants in Botswana: the dead elephants have been found in Okavango Province in Botswans. 356 deaths have been reported. The cause appears to be a neurological disorder or disease, as they are seen wandering in circles, and some carcasses have been found to have fallen on their faces. The elephants in the photo are two different species.<\/p>\n
The full story is here, with an embedded video:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/505782-officials-investigate-mysterious-deaths-of-more-than-350-elephants<\/a><\/p>\n This by itself is disturbing enough, since people are now poaching wildlife in India, e.g., tigers and jaguars are being poached during the CV-19 crisis. I know those people are desperate for money, but isn’t India wealthy enough to support those in need?\u00a0 No?\u00a0 No food pantries? No help from the gubbmint?<\/p>\n Okay, moving on…. the disease is only found in Africa so far. I will keep an eye on any progress in discovering what it is, but it does appear to be contagious among elephants, which means it can spread outside Botswana. There’s no word just yet on whether it’s something that might infect humans, which is a good reason to try to keep tabs on it.<\/p>\n In the same column of links, I found that the so-called liberals have decided, with their usual degree of utter stupidity, tackiness and bad manners,\u00a0 decided that a dead elephant (see link at Amazon) is not just a great idea for mocking the GOPers party, but a WHOPPER of a great idea!!.<\/p>\n So various and sundry money-grubbing idiots have started selling \u201cGOP Dead Elephant\u201d shirts and posters. They’re being sold on the independent sales sites such as Amazon and Red Bubble:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dead-Elephant-Republican-Protest-Tank\/dp\/B084F3VMDH?customId=B07MZP9QWJ&th=1<\/a><\/p>\n Real funny, right? Oh, just super, super duper funny!<\/p>\n Here’s a way to embarrass these jerks without starting a screaming match.<\/p>\n They are part of the population group that tries to hammer the rest of us about how the Earth is going to be completely destroyed (in 12 years, per AOC) by the following things: (pick one: plastic straws, any carbon-based product that produces CO2 as a byproduct, mining for rare elements that go into their iPhones, climate change, etc., etc., etc.) and yes, they just groove on “the environment” and “wildlife” (which is why they get chased by bears and coyotes).\u00a0 They’ll probably be horrified by the reports of (not poached) dead elephants, and then you can point out that someone is selling (or that they might be wearing) “dead elephant” T-shirts and it’s about as tacky and disrespectful to elephants as you can get. They simply shouldn’t support such gross tackiness by wearing a “dead elephants” T-shirt, which is cheesy, tawdry, tasteless, and about as close to despicable as you can get…. considering that elephants never did anything to them<\/em>, personally.<\/p>\n And then you can hand them a printout of the article from The Hill and walk away before they ask you where Botswana is located.<\/p>\n You could also bring up the plight of children as young as five years old being made to dig for cobalt in the Congo. It’s one of those elements that go into their precious iPhones and other electronic junk.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/dec\/16\/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths<\/a><\/p>\n From the Guardian article:\u00a0 \u00a0The extraction of cobalt from DRC has been linked to human rights abuses, corruption, environmental destruction and\u00a0child labour<\/a>.<\/p>\n