Remember cleaning all those bugs off your windscreen in the 80's and 90's?
Posted: Wed 06 Feb 2019 10:24
For me back then, it was more often a helmet visor, but the the significance is the same.
I read a thought provoking article this morning, primarily about the decline of insect populations, but the message went much deeper. A fascinating but very sobering read that drove home to me how the narcissistic attitude of "civilised" society trying to manage nature to meet our own ends is actually mis-managing nature to potentially bring about our own end.
Being a keen sea angler and son of a commercial fisherman, I am acutely aware or how few fish are caught off our shores these days and how much smaller they generally are. I'm also conscious of the toxic practices employed in fish farming to optimise profitability and how that is not a healthy solution to world hunger or even the basis of a healthy meal for us. These, whilst being a digression from bugs, are further indicators of the same problems.
I certainly do not consider myself a tree hugger and neither wish to be labelled a harbinger of doom, but I do think the linked article deserves a read.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/maga ... lypse.html
I read a thought provoking article this morning, primarily about the decline of insect populations, but the message went much deeper. A fascinating but very sobering read that drove home to me how the narcissistic attitude of "civilised" society trying to manage nature to meet our own ends is actually mis-managing nature to potentially bring about our own end.
Being a keen sea angler and son of a commercial fisherman, I am acutely aware or how few fish are caught off our shores these days and how much smaller they generally are. I'm also conscious of the toxic practices employed in fish farming to optimise profitability and how that is not a healthy solution to world hunger or even the basis of a healthy meal for us. These, whilst being a digression from bugs, are further indicators of the same problems.
I certainly do not consider myself a tree hugger and neither wish to be labelled a harbinger of doom, but I do think the linked article deserves a read.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/maga ... lypse.html