It's an element of clown world and the neopaganism/gaia worship ecocult.
Both the malthusian hatred for humans, and the pedestaling and worship of animals and nature.
You're not going crazy, your grandparents and their grandparents had a different morality to this. This is an aberration.
Send_it has a good point about animals and 'fur babies' being surrogate 'children' for the perpetually online, sterile and lonely too.
It's an element of clown world and the neopaganism/gaia worship ecocult.
Both the malthusian hatred for humans, and the pedestaling and worship of animals and nature.
You're not going crazy, your grandparents and their grandparents had a different morality to this. This is an aberration.