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This reminds me of what happened after COVID hit hard and everything shut down. The sky got clearer, sometimes dramatically! I smelled forest from my home right

• dalbasal 6y ago
  We forget that nature is dynamic... having gotten used to seeing it as perpetual macro trends. Where I live (dublin) we have a lot of urban foxes. There were there before, but over the last year their visibility and confidence has gone up hugely. Foxes are ordinarily very shy and stealthy, so you don't see them often. There are always notable exceptions. Certain places where foxes drop stealth. The airport, for example. Both foxes (and somewhat paradoxically) hares around Dublin airport behave like seagulls. 5km away, they're ghosts. Anyway... since covid, foxes have started behaving more like alley cats. I've seen them quarrel, hunt, walk 5 paces ahead of me on a sidewalk. Stealth doesn't seem to be a priority anymore. I don't think post-covid foxes will be like pre covid foxes. Foxes have changed.
• behnamoh 6y ago
  I hope one day we will acknowledge nature for everything it has given us and treat it as a free utility that everyone must be able to have. Nature's effect is so subtle - and yet undeniable - that most of us forget how important it is to maintain it, but we only appreciate it when it's taken away from us, just like music and every other art.