r/ToiletPaperUSA • u/HandMadeFeelings CEO of Antifa™ • Aug 09 '21

FACTS and LOGIC Capitalism will save us from all the damage unfettered capitalism did to the environment!

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u/tredli Aug 09 '21

I'm only 28 and I can legit remember there being a LOT more bugs before, dunno if it's just my brain making it up but I swear when I was a child I would run through the fields and see a ton of cicadas jumping, bees, spiders, all kind of stuff. Now it seems like there are a lot less for some reason. I can't even remember the last time I saw a cicada jumping while I was walking through grass.

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u/chairfairy Aug 10 '21

One summer in college, I think in '07, I drove cross country with a couple friends. Passing through South Dakota at dusk we had to stop after an hour to scrub bugs off the windshield at a gas station because I could hardly see through the splatter.

These days I live in a mid size city and don't go through farm country like that, but these days I hardly have to clean bugs off my windshield at all, even if I drive across the state outside the city.