Jeremy Clarkson: Just been for a walk round the farm and I’m a bit alarmed by how few butterflies there are.
Something is afoot.
Danny Wallace: Diesel-smelling Top Gear host who threatened climate protestors misses butterflies.
Better late than never.
So if this is caused by climate change, and we pretty much say everything that is bad that is happening is due to climate change, what are some good things happening from climate change?
We don’t say everything that is bad is happening because of Climate Change.
For example, Putins imperial Russia invading sovereign nations is completely unrelated to Climate Change. That just happens because they believe the USSR still exists.
Neither is China’s genocide of the Uyghur.
Positivity and all sure, but it comes off a bit tone deaf to say something like “(millions are displaced/dying) At least we’ll have more consistent warmer climates in generally colder areas! Yay gardening!”
The only reason Clarkson is still well liked is because he is funny and charismatic. But over all he is still an arch-conservative Tory jerk.
for sure. I love him as a TV persona, but definitly feel he and I would NOT get along in person.
This is amusing, as while watching Clarkson’s Farm, I find myself constantly yelling at the TV that he’s being dumb. But seems like every time he is interacting(in person) with someone he doesn’t know intimately he is extremely kind and deferential. With the exception being people that are antagonizing him in some way, even if they’re not being malicious about it.
I used to see so many monarch butterflies when I was a kid in Indiana. So many fireflies too. I don’t think I’ve seen a single monarch since I moved back about a decade ago and hardly any fireflies.
Don’t rake your leaves up in the fall and don’t mow in the spring until you are afraid of being fined. Plant a native garden. I have 3 species of fireflies in my little yard, and there are a lot of them.
We actually do all of that already. We even had a local person from the DNR come in and help us with choosing native plants and getting rid of invasive ones. Very few fireflies. There used to be so many when I was a kid, you could just walk around catching them in your hands in the evening.
Plant some milkweed in your garden and they’ll come. It’s literally a weed, so minimal care is required.
Fuck Jeremy Clarkson
