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Windshield phenomenon
The windshield phenomenon (or windscreen phenomenon) is the observation that fewer dead insects accumulate on the windshields and front bumpers of people’s cars since the early 2000s. It has been attributed to a global decrease of insect populations caused by human activity, e.g. use of pesticides.
in a just world, every person on that panel who dismissed her concerns would have a black bag pulled over their head and they’d wake up in a prison in El Salvador.
maybe. it might also be that most of the damage is the result of a few particular bad actors… arguably a large amount of the runaway environmental destruction we’ve witnessed is the accumulated result of a very small portion of the population being allowed to do whatever the fuck they want whenever the fuck they want for ~200 years?
we could test this theory out, empirically. I propose an experiment where we, um, neutralize, the top 1% who directly facilitate eco-cide in pursuit of corporate profits and then we’ll see if nature improves.
it is a good article. I appreciate when writers can talk not just about what a piece of technology is or can do, but also the impact it it has on people, their memories, and how it fits into the culture.
pickup trucks used to mean something to working class people, but these Deploreans are a gleaming manifestation of petulant man baby individualism born of conspicuous consumption and ostentatious self aggrandizement.
it’s the antithesis of what generations of working people associate with a “truck”.
100 days down.
1300 to go.
the country won’t last that long. an election isn’t going to undo the damage that’s already been done, let alone a thousand more days of carnage.
I’m glad the tax money my family pays is being so well spent! in addition to paying the CEOs and war financiers a hefty sum, I sleep better at night knowing that my kids will face a more brutal, unjust, uninhabitable future because endless proxy wars around the planet must be maintained at all costs, for the disproportionate benefit of a few thousand people who control half the world’s wealth and for whom the word “enough” has no meaning.