Another all too barren spring in NYC. There should...

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Another all too barren spring in NYC. There should be so many insects, so many ants, so many tiny creatures filling the parks, hitting the windshields of cars.

Remember when bugs used to hit the windshields of cars because the air was so full of life?

I guess most people think this is 'improvement' but they are wrong. There is a campaign to put the American bumblebee on the endangered species list!

We are living in an eerie lifeless netherworld and I don't know why more can't see it!

Like 6 April at 11:39 | Open on sauropods.win

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myrmepropagandist

Sometimes I walk for an entire city block without seeing a single insect. That is madness!

And if you don't like pest insects like roaches and houseflies, well, please understand that pests thrive on the margins of deadzones. That's part of why we have pest problems, because the city is just ... too dead. Too poisoned. And that's not even getting in to what those poisons are doing to humans.

6 April at 11:41 | Open on sauropods.win

Keith

@futurebird I think it's the baseline effect. My generation remembers lots of bugs on the windscreen. Probably nothing compared to our parents experience. And the passage of time changes what is thought of as normal. Unfortunately.

6 April at 11:41 | Open on mastodonapp.uk

Riley S. Faelan

@futurebird Another nightmare from Brave New World brought to life.

6 April at 11:43 | Open on toot.cat

Anna F

@futurebird we were watching the film ‘Men in Black’ the other day and there’s a scene where a big bug splats on a windshield and it seemed odd, I considered explaining that scene to my kids. That was released in 1997.

6 April at 11:45 | Open on climatejustice.rocks

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@futurebird Okay. Let's hear your solution to this problem.

6 April at 11:49 | Open on universeodon.com