Not all Change is good

[Delano]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html?fbclid=IwAR0fraDVymir1RtVjVypjU_7VNntTw5NvEV1R86H0QGqDMYK_yErKASFCsI

[Troy]

What do you think @Delano?

 

This quote was particularly telling:

 

"The current worldwide loss of biodiversity is popularly known as the sixth extinction: the sixth time in world history that a large number of species have disappeared in unusually rapid succession, caused this time not by asteroids or ice ages but by humans."

 

Someone pass me a beer.

[Delano]

Basically we are at the cross roads. We get it right or it's a wrap. 

[Troy]

We'll it was always, ultimately, going to be a wrap.  I just expected it to be on the order of an eon not a few generations. 

 

I did notice my car does not catch nearly as many bugs as it once did, and I drive quite a lot.

 

I also noticed that I never see caterpillars in NYC anymore. When I was a kid they were all over the place.  I

[Delano]

And fire flies

[Troy]

I still see firefly occasionally in NYC but not nearly as much as I used to -- even in the south. 

 

Still plenty of roaches running around though.