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When I was a child about 20 years ago, I remember going snorkelling near my home in the North Adriatic Sea quite often. I could see crabs, starfish, sea urchins
by pingec 8y ago
When I was a child about 20 years ago, I remember going snorkelling near my home in the North Adriatic Sea quite often. I could see crabs, starfish, sea urchins, sea horses, octopuses under rocks and loads of fish.
I went back there recently and was shocked to find the water looked clear but there were no animals left inside except for a few fish and a crab here and there.
This makes me really sad and pessimistic about the future of the planet and its living conditions for all living beings on it.
- nervousvarun 8y agoMy equivalent of this is frogs. Frogs and the rhythmic noises they made at night were the "white noise" of my childhood.
- Rotareti 8y agoMy equivalent of this is insects. My family and I made a lot of trips with our car in the 90th. The front of the car was full of squashed insects when we arrived. There was a constant knocking on the windshield. The amount of insects that I find on my car today is far less. I think it's about 10-20% of what it was in the 90th. I'm worried.
- neetdavid 8y agoThis has to be one of the funniest takes I've seen
- r7000 8y agohttp://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insects-gone http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insect... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/08/26/windscreen-phenomenon-car-no-longer-covered-dead-insects/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/08/26/windscreen-ph...
- neetdavid 8y agoI don't doubt that bug populations are dropping. The idea of lamenting climate change by having nostalgia for the days when piling into a car and driving across the countryside would guarantee a handful of smashed insects on the windscreen is funny to me.
- rootusrootus 8y agoYou guys can come take some of our frogs and insects :) My car (sports car, low to the ground) doesn't really get many bugs these days. My pickup, on the other hand, is a hot mess every couple days.
- fallingfrog 8y agoMe too- I remember catching frogs in the water by my parents house and listening to the peepers at night. Now, the frogs are gone. I don't know where they went..
- ahje 8y agoButterflies in my case. There used to be lots of them around here when I was a child. Luckily, there still seems to be enough bumblebees around to keep plants pollinated. I hope it lasts.
- m4n 8y agoEagles in my case. About 17-18 years ago, West India, I would see huge eagles and ask my dad silly questions. Now we hardly see any crow and sparrow here.
- ainiriand 8y agoLadybugs in my case, the gardens were full. Now they are a very rare encounter as the plants don't have aphids anymore.
- jaegerpicker 8y agoMy version is lightning bugs. Growing up I used to go out to catch lightning bugs all the time and there would be hundreds of them in nearly any field. Now I'm surprised and delighted just to see a dozen or so of them.
- mikestew 8y agoDid you move, by chance? I ask because I haven't seen lightening bugs in years. Not because of environmental disaster, but because I moved from Indiana to the West Coast. I kinda figured lightening bugs were everywhere. Turns out...
- siruncledrew 8y agoIt's sad because we really don't appreciate these small things in our lives until they are gone. I think humans are naturally receptive to nature, but we take nature for granted when it's always there, until one day it isn't.
- novaleaf 8y agoFor those who grew up in the Pacific Northwest: Seagulls. 30 years ago if you went to the coast you would have hundreds of seagulls on every beach. If you go there today you are lucky to see more than 5 in an entire day.
- Aloha 8y agoRemarkably, the same in Los Angeles
- hassan_shaikley 8y agoThere's a ton here in cold fucking Alberta