Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social

We need to get *everyone* on planet Earth to grasp this most vital truth, and into the fight for the natural world. No nature, no us. 🌏

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hashlib @hashlibhex.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

Where are you driving without bugs? I drove CO to NY, IL to FL, both this year. Each time the car was covered in bug guts.

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Colbobs.bsky.social @colbobs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 06:08 UTC

One of the most frustrating kickbacks to net zero is the ludicrous failure to realise that net does not mean zero, but balance. The threat they use? No CO2, no food. It simply isn't like that. Invertebrate decline is an important bellwether signal of ecosystem health.

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Zak McKracken @zakmckracken.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 22:20 UTC

When I was a kid we did travel a lot from Germany to Italy or Spain. The windshield was full of smashed insects back then. Nowadays there is not one fly glued to the glass… this is frightening

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 11:53 UTC

I've been noticing this when I drive in California's central valley, which used to bug murder alley. Now, between pesticide and development, I can drive down I5 or 99 from Redding to I80 and hit one bug. (I did it last month, in fact.)

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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 21:20 UTC

Meanwhile in Aotearoa New Zealand, our new RW government are going all in on mining, oil and gas. This from our CONSERVATION Minister👀 Jacinda Ardern got hounded out by cookers, racists and misogynists and here we are.

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