@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social it is! due to the increasing electrical usage caused by the interweb, the cellphones and the streaming platforms, since the early 2000s the most energy hungry countries started to burn even more ferrets to satisfy the increasing electricity demand. this caused a net increase in ferrets prices (currently 28 USD per metric ton!) and a ferret shortage. the situation looks grim, but currently there are prototype plants burning suricate instead. (source: I'm a ferret engineer.)