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Written by The Other Brook on 2025-01-24 at 16:00

I've ended up on beaverdeceivers.com, reading out loud to the Wife about their product to prevent beavers from blocking culverts under roads with a mixture of true interest and juvenile snickering. The straightforward, sensible tone in the copy is really striking and I had to pause after reading this paragraph about why killing beavers doesn't solve the problem:

"Humans often seem unable to recognize good long-term economics, especially when there’s a weapon handy. With guns and traps allowing for a 'free,' short-term remedy, people often develop a false sense of security. They forget that the dead beavers are not the only beavers."

The point is that beavers know where the good places to build ponds are and if you kill the ones blocking your culvert every night because it's letting water out of their pond, all you've done is invite the next generation of beavers who've left home to build a pond of their own to move into this prime, unoccupied location.

I can't quite put my finger on what about this resonates so much with me, but it feels like an insightful metaphor for a lot of willfully short-sighted and repetitively futile, approaches to problem solving. Humans excel at those.

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Written by jarek on 2025-01-24 at 16:02

@theotherbrook coincidentally, Beaver Deceivers is also my band name

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