hotwarioinyourarea [he/him] to earth • 9 months agoI feel very strongly that pigeons are beautiful birds and that we take them for granted.imagemessage-square20 fedilinkarrow-up181file-text
arrow-up181imageI feel very strongly that pigeons are beautiful birds and that we take them for granted.hotwarioinyourarea [he/him] to earth • 9 months agomessage-square20 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMagician [he/him, they/them]cakehexbear5·9 months agoThere's something about the way people see nature when it's categorized as a pest or nuisance. Weeds are only designated such because of the aesthetics around landowning, lawns and 'tamed' land. It's a really depressing, but salient phenomenon because then people without lawns start to value their aesthetics and suddenly care about pests. And this sort of logic can be directed at anything or anyone. link
There's something about the way people see nature when it's categorized as a pest or nuisance.
Weeds are only designated such because of the aesthetics around landowning, lawns and 'tamed' land.
It's a really depressing, but salient phenomenon because then people without lawns start to value their aesthetics and suddenly care about pests.
And this sort of logic can be directed at anything or anyone.