I hadn't really thought about it too much, but even in my relatively brief time on this planet I haven't heard as many as the years have went on. The world is being stripped away from us comrades. The little things that bring joy and make life interesting are going extinct at rates never before seen. The universe seems darker every day.
I had a similar realization a couple years ago when I was hanging out with my rural friends.
10 years ago when we were there at night the entire field would be lit up with fireflies. Now you're lucky if you see just a few buzzing around.
Life is becoming more bland as the 'spices' are killed off.
It was worth it I guess, we had McDonalds and a few guys got super duper rich!There aren't clouds in California like there was when I was a kid :deeper-sadness:It really is crazy isn't it? I lived in northern California for a few years and there were huge stretches of time in which the sky had absolutely zero clouds. It took moving to a new area and readjusting to realize just how bizarre that is.
I used to go to my grandparents and catch fire flies with my siblings. They really don't show up anymore like they used to.
A metric shit-ton of bird species are dying. For once, the main culprit is not climate change but our agricultural practices; see these two articles:
- French countryside sees alarming ‘collapse’ of bird populations
- More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
(the publication of the former references the latter, as an aside)
... thus far birds are dying mainly due the ongoing dramatic collapse of one of the foundations of the food web (among many other roles): insects. Thus far the impact of our modern pesticide-based agricultural practices is the main driver of that, though it is likely climate change consequences will eventually outrun those.
Every last capitalist should be ground to paste to restart these ecosystems. That's the only good they could ever do.
https://youtu.be/4WXYjm74WFI
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
i remember seeing so many more birds when i was younger. i can't remember the last time i saw the sky filled with migrating geese.
This also displays that bullshit reactionary point about pretending to care about nature. Where are all the hunters? Scarfing down the boot of capital like the good dogs they are. That's where.
