Ecosystems change all the time. There are also no dinosaurs roaming around Pratt st. I’m not saying these changes are good, but maybe I’d suggest just talking to someone who doesn’t fit the category of “aware” to maybe challenge you on some of your ideas. We’ve become so silo’d as a world. We reject anyone who has a dissenting opinion as a lunatic or racist or a Marxist or insert the cause Du jour here-phobia. This topic could be interesting to a lot of people, not just ones that are going to blindly agree with you.

You will probably do better with posts like these if you try deeper in Trump country. Still tons of fireflies in these parts, and bugs on our windshields. Not so much in the winter though, give it a few months.

I would recommend weening yourself off the schizo conspiracies instead.

Collapse-aware people are usually pretty left-leaning. We have spent our lives worrying about the climate, as well as social issues. The scientists, economists, environmentalists, and billionaires who recognize collapse is coming don't think it is a conspiracy theory.

Fireflies live in grass. You’re not going to see them downtown or in rowhome neighborhoods.

I'm a scientist, have been one for so long that I'm about to retire. In over 30 years as one I've never once heard another scientist mention it or anything like it.

Hey OP, what actions have all that worrying led you to?

Maybe not downtown, but we definitely get them in my neighborhood.

>Or how insect smeared windshields are no longer a thing

Uh, no, this is definitely not the case, not for me at least.

Check out places like Cylburn Arboretum, Natural History Museum, Oregon Ridge. They put on a lot of programs on this topic, so it's a good way to network with like minded individuals. They usually cost less than $10 to attend.

lmao at OP reporting this comment for violent content

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I see them every June in Pigtown.

Climate change is happening, yes - and that is going to lead to A) warmer winters, like we're having now and B) changes in habitat/wildlife. I think if humanity does absolutely nothing to combat climate change it could lead to collapse. If your argument is 'this could happen if we don't do enough' then you need to reword how you say it. If your argument is 'this will happen and y'all need to be prepared' then I can't help you and you need to be relegated to r/conspiracy.

https://www.science.org/content/article/where-have-all-insects-gone

https://www.science.org/content/article/where-have-all-insects-gone

https://www.science.org/content/article/where-have-all-insects-gone

What area of science do you work in?

https://www.science.org/content/article/where-have-all-insects-gone

Different things through my career. Marine biology with plants mostly, also oysters for a while. Chasing that grant money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq_747zFI5w&ab_channel=NateHagens

I don't worry. I'll be dead by the time things get really bad.

Thank you

I grew up in this city, and I grew up w/ lots of fireflies.

I reported it as harassment, not for being violent.

Lmfao

I would like to think that I have met all of your challenges.

Hold onto this comment. Genuinely. We are losing species to this - namely birds and pollinators (not just bees, bats too), natural disasters are getting worse and more frequent. We are currently projected to have the an unlivable planet by 2040 from those that researched this extensively for decades. This matches the projection that Exxon and shell’’s own scientists - as well as MIT - calculated using their own data. We’re projected to have an inability to reliably grow for even sooner. Not to mention the rise of fascism, the global pandemic that continues w 4000 deaths a week in the US alone, no mitigations, and no transmission stopping vaccine anywhere/worsening variants, and supply chain issues stemming from all these sources as well as a majority unwell and increasingly disabled workforce.

The reality of it feels like fear mongering because so much of it is oppressive to continued existence and hard to accept, but time will prove that we are headed toward societal and climate collapse.

Regardless of change it’s so interesting that human arrogance believes these changes will benefit, sustain, or even spare us. The most realistic assumption is that we are being rejected, due to the damage we created, to reach equilibrium and start anew. Humans aren’t forever. Nothing is.