solarpunk memes

I love this, but I suspect that the average person will see the last one and think, "Perfect! An orderly lawn and less insects."

Shit you’re telling me to get rid of those asshole grasshoppers I just need a straight path?

Yeah this is not really selling it because most people have a negative amount of interest in more bugs

If you got rid of the 🗿 you wouldn't have flies. 🗿 Spontaneously generate them.

What if I want a big stone head and a jungle and a food garden?

I don't see mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, ants (ants especially on the vines on the house) spiders, roaches, centipedes, or a dozen other specialized bugs that eat your vegetable garden.

My yard looks like a mix of 1 and 2, but there's a lot of negatives to your daily life with any of the 3 options and this biased graphic clearly wants you to pick 1 or at least 2 over 3.

Got a couple of acres of swamp down here. Friend of mine won't visit because of the mosquitoes. Makes sense, right? Swamp = mosquitos.

But there are hardly any! Might get buzzed twice at sundown, that's it, far worse at my home. Also, unlike everywhere else in the South, there are zero fire ants. Literally not a single ant to be found.

All because I have a robust ecosystem out there. The tiny "ground attack" spiders, whatever they're called, are legion. You won't see one unless you look for 'em, or shine a flashlight across the ground at night. 100s of thousands per acre, maybe a million+.

I got banana spiders with fat webs for traps, dragonflies and hummingbirds for helicopters and jets. Tiny lizards prowl everywhere. Tiny fish in the "ponds" eat any larva or eggs that get in there, sometimes surface bugs.

All that scales up to snakes (oddly rare), small mammals, raptors, you get the idea.

tl;dr: Healthy system = hellish Deathworld for insects.

One other note: I've cleared about 1,200sq./ft. at the main camp site. Just that tiny bit of clearing is noticeably hotter than 60'-80' down the trail. Haven't taken thermometer readings, but you can feel an easy 5°F drop. Amazing that such a small spot becomes a heat island. Now look at the top and bottom pics. Does the bottom pic look hot to you? Does the top pic evoke feelings of coolness? Yeah. Imagine what our cities, roads and fields are doing to the overall environment.

You can still add 🗿 to the top. The insects will be fine!

And then the city fines you once a week for “grass too tall”

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I can tell you from experience that if you neglect your garden for about 15 years, it does not look like that top one at all.

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Kill it!