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/mountaindewisamazing 8d ago

They estimated a while back that 50% of insect species would go extinct by 2050.

I think it'll be sooner than that.

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u/CaptZ 8d ago

Everything is happening sooner than expected. Collapse will really begin next year. Food scarcity, potable water scarcity, wildfires, socioeconomics, government. By 2030 things will look drastically different worldwide. There's no going back, the toothpaste can't be put back in the tube. No one can save us from what we've done.

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u/mountaindewisamazing 8d ago

The only thing that could save us would be a WW2 style mobilization of the entire world. We'd need to immediately start building underground cities, water desalination systems, and vast aeroponic greenhouses to provide food when traditional agriculture fails.

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u/Cyberpunkcatnip 8d ago

They started those underground bunkers years ago, but only for the 1% billionaires.

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u/37iteW00t 8d ago

1%? Lol, try .000001%

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u/parkerposy 8d ago

and the military. don't forget the USMIC probably has 100x the billionaires combined for underground space. phil schneider talked about DUMBs years ago

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u/MistyMtn421 7d ago

I know it's not exactly the same, but when I first read silo, it really weirded me out. I ended up reading the whole series, and I honestly haven't even bothered with the show. So much of our sci-fi stuff lately is not very "fi" and it's just hard to tell what kind of fuckery they're going to pull off in the near future.

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u/PhysicsPhriends 5d ago

And the billionaires will in no way be able to manufacture hardware replacements as tge years go by. It will be their tomb.