That happens when you kill all the insects these animals normally eat. Maybe we shouldn’t be spraying pesticides by the metric ton.
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All the insects that are gone
Cats!
Territory disappearing faster
Pollution
Insecticides / pesticides
It's a wonder there are any birds left
We're all fucked :)
When you kill all the bugs, you kill all the birds who eat bugs, too?
UNFATHOMABLE
Also people that let their cats outside are part of this problem.
Cats are the cutest, most precious little cuddly things. But they need to all be indoors. Every single one of them.
Mine stays inside for just this reason.
Yep, same. Plus they live healthier lives indoors and are far less likely to be injured.
In contrast my dogs have become pals with our neighbours up in the back tree.
Every afternoon around the same time, the birds land on the back porch and call them out,. Even if the dogs are snoozing they instantly get up and sprint outside, then a round of chasey-swoopy happens for a few mins before they all come up and sit on the back porch together for a while. This happens every day about an hour before sunset for a couple years now.
Cool birds too. If I go out there and sit with everyone, the bravest bird some times perches on my arm with the temptation a small bit of ham.
We are a walking, talking extinction event: Welcome to the Holocene Era!
Part of me tries to rationalize the current state of the world as a last gasp by those who know we're all doomed and can't change anything. The elite and powerful. And instead of trying to fix anything, they've all decided they're gonna go balls to the wall before it's all fucked beyond repair.
And they think they want to live forever too. Like Zuck with his bunkers, who tf is going to take care of him when it all goes to shit? Money isn't going to be worth anything. Maybe that's why he trained for MMA, lol.
That dude is going to get blasted by his head of security before they run out of caviar.
We will end up as an oily radioactive smear in the geological record. And that’s fine with me.
Seems like that would just piss off 99% of the population and ensure those responsible a terrible fate once billions of desperate humans get so fed up they'll become capable of pretty much anything. I'm guessing a lot of these people are already so old they don't care or so insulated the don't understand the danger they're putting themselves in.