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Anybody Notice The Lovebugs Are Gone? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I was a kid, I remember seeing clouds of them in the school field when we went out to play. There used to be so many that they would cover your windshield. For the last few years I have hardly seen any around. Today, I only saw a single solitary bug lazily flying through the air.

I suspect the rapidly changing climate is the cause but, I guess I feel a bit of shock at realizing and reflecting on the fact that this is happening right at home.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even if the love bugs are gone, even if the fireflies are gone now, they will NOT be gone forever, in the future when the bourgeoisie is but history I fully believe that we can restore the biosphere in some sense. I mean, even now we have the ability to sequence the genome of long extinct creatures, we are not that far removed from being able to bring species back from extinction, it is just not very profitable todo more research into that particular field.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I hope that is possible. I have always had trust in the scientific process but, at times I feel human changes to the biosphere are a one way street at this point. Right now it seems science's ability to come up with countermeasures to environmental destabilization cannot keep pace with it. I hope that science, unshackled from the profit motive under rational communist planning will be able to do better, so that the suffering of so many organisms, great and small, can be avoided.