transdib reblogged
it's kind of crazy climate change has occurred at such a remarkable pace that I and everyone else around my age can remember a completely different climate in our childhoods. I truly watched winter gradually disappear in my life.
"You're too young to remember this, but there used to be so many insects outside that you would have to clean them off the windshield after a long car ride" is the kind of sentence that would have been in a cheesy scifi short story earlier in my life, perhaps submitted to a literary magazine and accepted to show support for its environmentalist message - now it's something I've said in earnest.
#i remember all the insects :(#my uncle said he remembers seeing so many mammals out and about#like apparently youd see a wombat or echidna every now and then#or a kangaroo quite commonly#i mean i guess i still saw roos every now and then#but ive only seen an echidna like....twice in my life#and that was spacing over 20 years between or so#there were more birds etc too#and that was just one generation ago#he was born in the late 60s early 70s#its sad man
