15 years ago my bio professor was desperately trying to warn about the insect apocalypse, and climate change but specifically the mass insect die off. I watched it happen.
When's the last time your windshield was covered with bugs on a road trip?
It's something I have a hard time explaining to young people.
Like there just used to be more bugs around?
Just bugs everywhere
It always ignores that the exploited countries have to resort to destructive capitalist methods after the capitalists toppled their indigenous government and replaced it with puppets who happens to be BFF with western capitalists.
Capaitalism almost drove the entire class of Aves into extinction and everyone treats it just as an oopsie moment.
edit: what if western media puts heavy emphasis on China's sparrow eradication campaign to distract people from the DDT bird apocalypse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_bird_species_since_1500
:doomer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_owl
:owl-pissed:
You keep up with this shit I’m going to force you to work on an experimental radio transmitter station and maybe make contact with genocidal space aliens!
Rachel Carson, along with that rat at the Inner Mongolian logging camp, are responsible for putting humanity into the Crisis Era
Also, American Experience - Rachel Carson trailer
