- The lead of the Daily Mail said it all: “Scientists claim that there are fewer wild animals in neighborhoods where mostly people of color live — and their absence is affecting residents’ mental health.”
- Let’s pause just there. Uh, “people of color” often live in cities, and cities often have fewer animals than, say, rural areas, where, you know, “people of color” also live.
- But what’s a woke biologist to do? In the endless quest to find racism everywhere (and let’s be clear, racism exists all across the world), biologists have turned to the animal world.