Closing a herbarium during the sixth mass extinction 🤡
When I was a kid, I was like the creator, what a cool sci-fi movie! As an adult, I realize Starship Troopers, along with Trading Places and Little Shop of Horrors, heavily shaped my politics 😂
I felt that too, especially the manner in which he poked fun at their contradictions. It comes off as dismissive, but I don't think this is actually the case.
Based on an interview I watched of Citarella, he seeks to understand the teens and their motivations, telling their stories with compassion. Citarella also stated that the right is taking this phenomenon seriously (and using it as a pipeline), so the left should as well.
If nobody got me, I know Chesapeake Bay Watershed got me 🙏 Can I get an amen?
The above map doesn't include fishing, it's showing land use. This shows fishing:
Here is another one about land animals:
I grew up on concrete with streets peppered by exotic callery pear and feral pigeons. It wasn't until a friend moved to a neighborhood with big yards (for the city, anyway) that I saw cardinals, bluejays, cottontails, foxes, and nights lit up by fireflies.
I live close to that neighborhood now and the streets here are lined with willow oak, black cherry, and sycamore. So many woodland creatures and cool bugs, some of which are recorded on iNat.
But go a mile south to a redlined neighborhood and the canopy is sparse to none. The streets are lined with empty tree wells, usually sloppily paved over. Some years ago, the police installed bright white spotlights and surveillance cameras. Absolutely brutal stuff.