Thank you for the link. I missed this article, which was published earlier this month.
This is not a pleasant, feel-good story.
Decades on from his months spent bound to the rocking chair, Janzen still watches. He records the yearly data, the shifts in dominant species. But today, there is so much less to see. Once, when he and Hallwachs would type up their notes in the night, they would pitch a tent in the living room to protect their computers from thousands of moths that flocked to the blue glow. Now, they work with the house open to the forest air. “I find myself saying, ‘Winnie! A moth has arrived at the light on my laptop,’” Janzen says. “One moth.”
Elsewhere in their profession, some scientists are starting to look away. “We know quite a number of entomologists who have experience dating back to the 70s, 80s or 90s,” Hallwachs says. “One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night. It is too devastating to see how few there are.”
And given that there is a food chain to be concerned with, we can reasonably expect to be impacted.
Rampant capitalism tells the world policy-makers to ignore climate change and science because they can make more money that way.
The problem is that they really either don’t think about or don’t care that money will be worthless if they ruin the country/planet.
They got theirs. Fuck everyone else.
These people are sick. Many of them deep down know that they’re sick. They couldn’t stop if they wanted to. It’s like cancer. The only thing they care about is growth - until it all colapses under its own dead weight. They’re aware that it will happen and some may even be looking forward to it. It’s safe to say that none of them are happy.
Been talking about this for years now. Discussing this with people you know really impacts them. They haven’t noticed, but they will instantly know what you’re talking about when you use local examples.
Yeah?
