Am 54 year old American. If young folks knew what the natural world was like when I was a kid, you would fucking SCREAM. LOL, if I teleported some of you to 1978, you would be afraid to go outside for all the wild animals and insects. Lightning bugs were fucking sweet! Love bugs, meh, not so much. So it goes.
Yes, pollution and littering has massively improved, not even a contest. OTOH, I’ve seen population better than double in my lifetime. That should freak you right the fuck out.
Only looking at the vertebrates we’re tracking, they’re 73% fucking dead. Those stats say nothing of the insects and amphibians we’ve killed off in a short human lifetime. We’ve killed off the bottom of the food chain. I’ve seen the food chain collapse on my fucking front porch over the last 5 years. And our house is the only reason this hood has frogs and dragonflies!
Fuck me, can’t even fish around here for fear of driving the ecosystems into a further death spiral. I got loads of free gear from kayaking around and picking up fishing litter! Can’t even nab a couple of fish for dinner, can’t risk it. 🤬
I don’t know what to do. I have a fair sized yard and 2.5 acres of swamp in the boonies. No money, but I do what I can, as best as I know. But I’m crying for what my little kids never saw and will never know.
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Generations don’t have anything to do with this. Billionaires are the problem
No war but class war
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Psst one generation was to stupid to realize this and actively voted to lick boots because one day they would be billionaires. Here is a hint their brains are full of lead.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah. Life was great for the Boomers! Same for Gen X! “Meh, looks good to me. Let’s keep on. 'Murican way!”
Sounded good to me. We only had 3 TV stations and 1 local paper to tell us the “truth”. Ironically, the “truth” back then was far truer than social media and cable news feeds us today.
So yeah, we got heads full of lead, literally. Some of us broke out of the “bubble”, some didn’t.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Also butlerian jihad (adjacent to class war)
Stopping genocide
Abolition (one front of class war)
But yes.