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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The Real Story of the Covid Catastrophe is Larger Than You Know" -by thom hartmann
"Covid may soon be the least of our worries
"Our planet is screaming a message at us, and Covid is part of that communication.The death of nature and the appearance of Covid are all part of the same thing.
"Ill never forget the day the trucker called into my radio show. It was at least a decade ago, and he identified himself as a long-haul trucker who regularly ran a coast-to-coast route from the southeast to the Pacific Northwest dozens of times a year.
"Used to be when I was driving through the southern part of the Midwest like I am right now, he said, Id have to stop every few hours to clean the bugs off my windshield. Its been three days since Ive had to clean bugs off my windshield on this trip. Theres something spooky going on out here.
"The phone lines lit up. People from Maine to California, from Florida to Washington state shared their stories of the vanishing insects where they lived. Multiple long-haul truckers listening on SiriusXM had similar stories.
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elleng
(130,126 posts)applegrove
(118,011 posts)markie
(22,755 posts)important stuff
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)Before Covid I made long driving trips two or three times each year. And yeah, some time back after a few hours my windshield was covered with bug corpses. Not so much in recent years.
Larissa
(786 posts)As a child we used to collect lightning bugs in a jar to make a living flashlight. They are now few and far between. I just don't see insects as I used to anymore. My grandmother had a rose garden and she'd laugh when we'd scream in terror at the earthworms. I cannot even remember the last time I saw one.
Chipper Chat
(9,634 posts)Those friendly big yellow and black ones that build their webs among the last if the vegetables. We would toss them ants to eat. They're gone. I haven't seen any for 4 years.
scipan
(2,295 posts)In October 2017 a group of European researchers found that insect abundance (as measured by biomass) had declined by more than 75 percent within 63 protected areas in Germanyover the course of just 27 years.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-insect-populations-are-plummeting-and-why-it-matters