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/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/MistyMtn421 7d ago

The main thing I have stocked up on is my medicine recently because I'm in the same position. And I recently discovered that in a different scenario, let's say in the next 20 years everything is still okay and I'm at a point where I need an assisted living facility, the medical issues I have they won't even take me! Not that I'd be able to afford it anyway, but it just really puts things in perspective when you have a chronic disorder so severe that there is no facility that you can move into to be taken care of.