They’ve gone to the same place flowers, young girls, husbands, and soldiers have gone, graveyards every one. When will they ever learn? They never will. We know that now. And we know why.
Every few years I reread Lewis's trilogy, and every time it scares the crap out of me. I am horrified at how it is playing out in real time. I doubt we can count on enchanted bears or Merlin.
On a better note, I have loved insects all my life. I am particularly fond of beetles and damselflies. We purchased our half acre on a swamp 30 years ago and have never used pesticides or herbicides but still, the insects dwindle. They cannot fight the mono-green lawns, sterile gardens, and copter-bombed pellets of the city. For a short moment in time it seemed the world was going "organic"- there were even lawn companies that didn't used chemicals...then came the fear fakery and those "organic" folks returned to all their poisons- even embracing them for their kids.
I don't know how I stumbled onto this website, but this was a a bit of writing worth reading.
Really good post. Appreciated. Engaging in this kind of questioning is a good thing. Revolutions are always inner and outer and need to be treated as such. We are treated by leaders we have supposedly chosen who then proceed to blame us for what is wrong. This is classic behavior by mentally unstable serial abusers. We should not be accepting any of this.
You forgot the Hope part - create the habit as a responsible steward, and they will come. It’s incredible how much diversity of insect life shows up even in the first year of regenerative garden planting! Everyone would do a world of good for the health of our planet if we immediately ceased all toxic sprays and applications and planted a pocket of prairie. And the best part is, it’s not hard to do.
I tend to always leave out the hope part. I guess I don't want people to feel better and then ignore the point of the article! Sorry.
Yes, particularly with insects, saving them is not as difficult as saving other "higher forms" of life...their life cycle is so short a creation of many generations of one species can be accomplished in a relatively short period of time. There IS hope for sure...only most people have to get on board...
In the UK, neonicotinoids are still being used for sugar beet this year... the government pay lip service to saving bees, peat bogs and wildlife (yadda yadda) but still allow carcinogenic shite to destroy it all. Mental.
So, as I'm solution focused, what am I doing to help?.....
A wildlife pond, native species of hedging, planting bee friendly everything in the 6m x10m small garden and on the 10m x 12m allotment I've just been preparing (using the Charkes Dowding No Dig method... bless that man).... if it's not native and good for insects, I don't plant it.
Have a look at Arthur Furstenberg re EMF's.... frightening.
Jean Henri Fabre was a French entomologist I admired so much when I was a kid...he describes in one of his books buying a little shack/house out in a field filled with local insects and how he would lay in the grass and observe them all day...he was one of the first to study insect behavior rather than pin them dead to cork board.
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money." - Cree Indian Proverb
The decentralized solution, in this case, being pesticides and insecticides, and other forms of insect destruction to solve the problem of crop inefficiencies to meet certain unrealistic production quotas?
My favorite is identifying the problem of pollution as existing at the individual consumer level, meaning if we don't each recycle our plastic all the sea turtles will die...because of us...and no REAL restrictions are put on the kilotons of waste dumped in the oceans by the "elites'" corporate babies...or am I missing the point?
agreed agreed. though if you really need a reunion with the fauna you can join me in the canoe this spring. there's enough bug action to seriously challenge your sanity. bonus, you'll eat pounds of them accidentally! paddling a 40 mph cross wind becomes a relief and the approaching shoreline a horror show. lol! wheeee! can't wait.
Just imagine how many pounds of them you would have eaten 40 years ago. Yes, we see the demise of insects most notably in urban areas, and than god the wilderness ecosystems are dying a slower death.
for sure there's less splatter on the windshield. you used to have to use the scrubby side of the squeegee at the gas station to try to make a dent in it. do gas stations even have squeegees anymore? anyhoo, the drones all get their lawns coated in toxic shit a few times a year. maybe they'll synchronize the spraying with the vaxxing. smugly pushing around their battery powered lawn mowers. my place will remain a proper refuge of overly loud 2 stroke everything. i became addicted to the smell of big red mix in dirt bikes at an impressionable age. i blame kawasaki. my last words at the Environmental Trials will be, 'vroom vroom'.
Every few years I reread Lewis's trilogy, and every time it scares the crap out of me. I am horrified at how it is playing out in real time. I doubt we can count on enchanted bears or Merlin.
On a better note, I have loved insects all my life. I am particularly fond of beetles and damselflies. We purchased our half acre on a swamp 30 years ago and have never used pesticides or herbicides but still, the insects dwindle. They cannot fight the mono-green lawns, sterile gardens, and copter-bombed pellets of the city. For a short moment in time it seemed the world was going "organic"- there were even lawn companies that didn't used chemicals...then came the fear fakery and those "organic" folks returned to all their poisons- even embracing them for their kids.
I don't know how I stumbled onto this website, but this was a a bit of writing worth reading.
Thanks.
Hey BeverlyB...didn't see this when you first posted it...welcome!! So glad you found us.
Cool that you read the Space Trilogy repeatedly...I have read it four times now...always blows me away, especially now.
So cool you live on a swamp!!
wow. there would be a webhouse called fromage.et. seriously?
Don't think so...
https://www.nfb.ca/film/waterwalker/
ignore the fromage.et al. i watch this for a reminder. he was ancient. now i am.
peace
I was really into these books by Colin Fletcher when I was younger and could actually stand up from a sit on the ground....I think he was 40 when he walked the PCH, and everyone thought he was crazy....https://www.amazon.ca/Man-Who-Walked-Through-Time-ebook/dp/B00OEXJB5E/ref=sr_1_4?crid=30QT7WF6G8STJ&keywords=colin+fletcher&qid=1676730737&sprefix=fletcher+colin%2Caps%2C104&sr=8-4
Really good post. Appreciated. Engaging in this kind of questioning is a good thing. Revolutions are always inner and outer and need to be treated as such. We are treated by leaders we have supposedly chosen who then proceed to blame us for what is wrong. This is classic behavior by mentally unstable serial abusers. We should not be accepting any of this.
Astute correlation...abusers who blame the abused for being abused. A form of gaslighting...
You forgot the Hope part - create the habit as a responsible steward, and they will come. It’s incredible how much diversity of insect life shows up even in the first year of regenerative garden planting! Everyone would do a world of good for the health of our planet if we immediately ceased all toxic sprays and applications and planted a pocket of prairie. And the best part is, it’s not hard to do.
I tend to always leave out the hope part. I guess I don't want people to feel better and then ignore the point of the article! Sorry.
Yes, particularly with insects, saving them is not as difficult as saving other "higher forms" of life...their life cycle is so short a creation of many generations of one species can be accomplished in a relatively short period of time. There IS hope for sure...only most people have to get on board...
That should have read “create the habitat”
With you on this.
In the UK, neonicotinoids are still being used for sugar beet this year... the government pay lip service to saving bees, peat bogs and wildlife (yadda yadda) but still allow carcinogenic shite to destroy it all. Mental.
So, as I'm solution focused, what am I doing to help?.....
A wildlife pond, native species of hedging, planting bee friendly everything in the 6m x10m small garden and on the 10m x 12m allotment I've just been preparing (using the Charkes Dowding No Dig method... bless that man).... if it's not native and good for insects, I don't plant it.
Have a look at Arthur Furstenberg re EMF's.... frightening.
Good for you! You are a hero!! Thank you.
Jean Henri Fabre was a French entomologist I admired so much when I was a kid...he describes in one of his books buying a little shack/house out in a field filled with local insects and how he would lay in the grass and observe them all day...he was one of the first to study insect behavior rather than pin them dead to cork board.
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money." - Cree Indian Proverb
"Nature bats last." - Guy McPherson
Yep....follows C.S. Lewis' ideas as well...
"Insects, animals, birds, plants, oceans, air…all parts of the natural living world being systematically destroyed."
Problems are engineered in order to justify a certain type of centralized solution.
Dane Wigington's research may be found here:
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
The decentralized solution, in this case, being pesticides and insecticides, and other forms of insect destruction to solve the problem of crop inefficiencies to meet certain unrealistic production quotas?
My favorite is identifying the problem of pollution as existing at the individual consumer level, meaning if we don't each recycle our plastic all the sea turtles will die...because of us...and no REAL restrictions are put on the kilotons of waste dumped in the oceans by the "elites'" corporate babies...or am I missing the point?
agreed agreed. though if you really need a reunion with the fauna you can join me in the canoe this spring. there's enough bug action to seriously challenge your sanity. bonus, you'll eat pounds of them accidentally! paddling a 40 mph cross wind becomes a relief and the approaching shoreline a horror show. lol! wheeee! can't wait.
Just imagine how many pounds of them you would have eaten 40 years ago. Yes, we see the demise of insects most notably in urban areas, and than god the wilderness ecosystems are dying a slower death.
BTW, would love to do a canoe trip with you!
for sure there's less splatter on the windshield. you used to have to use the scrubby side of the squeegee at the gas station to try to make a dent in it. do gas stations even have squeegees anymore? anyhoo, the drones all get their lawns coated in toxic shit a few times a year. maybe they'll synchronize the spraying with the vaxxing. smugly pushing around their battery powered lawn mowers. my place will remain a proper refuge of overly loud 2 stroke everything. i became addicted to the smell of big red mix in dirt bikes at an impressionable age. i blame kawasaki. my last words at the Environmental Trials will be, 'vroom vroom'.