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Text of post embedded deep into unusable interface: The youngsters may not even know it, but any older person remembers very well that up to about 20 years ago
by forgotmypw17 6y ago
Text of post embedded deep into unusable interface:
The youngsters may not even know it, but any older person remembers very well that up to about 20 years ago any car trip meant a windshield covered in insects crushed by impact. Today, that doesn't happen the same way anymore.
It may look great to travel with a clean windshield. But doesn't that tell you anything? Where did the bugs go anyway?
Scientists associate the dramatic decline of insect populations with agribusiness due to the destruction of natural habitats and pesticide application. The decline of insects, besides being a tragedy in itself, affects all earthly ecosystems, such as the diet of birds, reptiles and amphibians, and pollination of plants, etc. The collapse of insect populations may be the foreshadowing of earthly ecosystems collapse.
- jbay808 6y agoThe usual response to this is "aerodynamics have gotten better". That said, a lot of vintage cars are still on the road and so it would be fairly easy to test if their bug impacts line up with how older people remember them being. And since the illustration shows 1998, those cars are definitely still around.