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what happened to the fireflies

Understand that the system has a natural outcome. There is reconciliation. We will be able to 3D print a tree in like three years. That's the order of magnitude one must think in at this moment in history. It worls out with the Knowledge of the Kabbalah.

When I shift the base the whole floor goes wild abd I twerk and I cut a man who made me seem likr Rodney dangerfirlf was the right way to gi.

The irony is that we already killed the majority of medium to large animals by about 10,000 years ago. We are living during the last seconds of our extensive eradication program.

What drives me a little crazy is in my metro the cheapest living is essentially in the burbs. I live at the end of the metro system basically which balances cost and access. If we subsidized high rises there would be so many people like myself that would go live downtown. I am old enough to have seen a lot of change. One thing that gets me is how areas that if you drove to when I was young would be farmland is not basically extended burbs. If people really want to live like that im fine but it should be cheapest to live in the highest density living area on a per square feet of finished indoor space to encourage less wasted living space.

I get used to Vancouver BC, then if I fly to Toronto or past trips to the USA you really notice how shit their green areas are. Like the bottom image is the park behind my house. And this is everywhere in BC. The top picture is other cities if you took half the tree and animal pics out

1800 reminds me of

It applies to human life too.

Many things we consider normal weren't normal century ago, two centuries ago etc.

Oddly there are more forests in the USA now than there were in 1950.

One of the issues with this is that the previous generation that knows this best in my country is currently the least interested in talking about climate change. My parents grew up in a noticably different climate but they don't want to hear or say anything about this because to them confronting climate change means giving up convenience and if there's one thing boomers hate it's giving up convenience.

I just want bees back. My town used to have bees everywhere you looked and you could plant anything and you would get to harvest it later. Now you are lucky if you get a couple fruit/veggies per plant. Its not just bees either. The standard 'plant this to attract pollenators' plants don't help if there are no pollenators to attract.

I grew up in the 70s and 80s in the US. It is so much better now.

• Deer were almost extinct in big parts the Midwest
• Raptors were extremely rare
• There weren’t Apex predators like mountain lions, cougars, or bobcats like there are now
• There are so many more birds than when I was a kid

All this nihilism makes everybody feel hopeless. Meanwhile, people have been working towards improving the environment and there have been real payoffs.

Not that we’re done, but the efforts we’ve made have had real tangible changes for the positive.

The impact that Ducks Unlimited made just can’t be overstated.

it happened with rare plants that were found in america that is almost associated with tropical asia, it is now extinct, its unique because its the only one found in temperate america as opposed to ASIA, SE asia, new zealand and australia(thismia americana a mycoheterotroph, was discovered over 100years ago by Pfieffer and was never seen again, its relatives are concentrated in asia, the question is how did it get to america(called disjunct population and why isnt there more plants, its presumed to be extinct due to development around a place in chicago since then. not enough attention goes to plants and small animals, theres a term called charismatic megafauna(aka your large furry endangered animals).

I kinda get the point, but why stop in the 1800's

360 million years ago:

source: https://euroweeklynews.com/2026/01/24/completely-different-form-of-life-discovered-by-researchers-in-scotland/

You see numbers like population reduced by 90% in the last x years. What's often forgotten that it was already reduced by 90% earlier, so actually only 1% is left. As illustrated here.

I saw a post recently about how butterflies are always drawn like that, wings spread all the way out. That's only for dead/preserved specimens, in nature their wings are much more overlapped and I can't stop thinking about it

One of the reasons is the trend of a boring, uniform yard. I remember growing up we had honey suckles, various plants and such in the yard, some were not pleasant to step on but had bio diversity. With the drive of a "perfect" lawn and the use of so many chemicals including pesticides and removal of native flora as well as trees, this has decreased bio-diversity. I hate lawns, I'd rather have natural grasses and shrubs and such.

Then people tell me "well you have to tend to those and it's a lot of work." No you don't, you tend to them because you're keeping up with the neighbors. Let them grow, water them when conditions require, clean up leaves in autumn. There's no need to modify plants for aesthetics, that's not what I'm interested in.