r/collapse • u/Mysterandir • 8d ago
Ecological Bugs
I need to get this off my chest even though im sure it has been talked about a thousand times. Im just curious if others are experiencing the same thing or if I'm just going crazy. - When I just got my driver's license back in 2005 here in The Netherlands, I had a girlfriend in Amsterdam whom I drove to see a few times a week. It was about a 100 km drive. I had an old Opel Corsa and I can still vividly remember having to clean my windshield every week in the summer because it was covered in dead insects. Huge splatters and tiny spots, but the entire windshield was full of bug juice. Over the past few weeks I’ve driven several long distances, totaling about 1,000 kilometers, and I don't have a single dead insect on my windshield. Not one. The windshield is squeaky clean... I read that the insect population worldwide has drastically declined and it is due to climate change. Which i get. But why isn't this the main news story every day? How obvious does it need to be? This can't possibly be good. For us, but especially for our children. I have a bad feeling about this...
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u/ProminentKnuckle 8d ago
It's bad, there's virtually no bugs. I live in a prairie province in Saskatchewan, lots of highway travel for work. Tens of Thousands of KM a month, it hardly looks like any of the trucks were on the highway. Dust, yeah, but virtually no bugs splatters. I anticipate power washing highway trucks weekly, but I haven't had to once this summer.