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nabaath-areng · 4 months ago

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Being brought up on a farm and only ever going back indoors to head right back out again for my whole life, the decreasing amount of insects has been extremely noticeable and it's been going on for years. Of course it's been worrying with the climate catastrophe, and once I became a beekeeper and learned more about my village's local flora it became even more glaring.

So imagine my surprise this year when there are more insects than I can count. Sitting on my porch (practically my room during summers) I'm noticing species I haven't seen since I was at least a young teenager, and there are more butterflies of different varieties than I even remember from my childhood!

There are so many bees flying around too, probably from the hives down by the old homestead buildings by the church and school, owned by the woman I know from the local beekeeper's association.

What's more is that this year there has been no drought OR flooding, so there are a lot more flowers blooming for longer, and everyone in my village as well as the surrounding villages are reporting a burst of activity in their hives... as well as higher activity from the wild bees and pollinators. For the first time in years it's starting to resemble the way it was when I was younger.

All that is to say, the climate catastrophe is real, and in my area it's causing a lot more violent thunderstorms... but oh my god all this reminds me why I persist despite the despair that tries to dig its claws in.

I may not be able to do major change on a global scale, but you can bet me and everyone here will at least try and support this little place. We can keep going in the fight against the municipality that wants to urbanize at the cost of our precious biodiversity, and we can continue to fight to keep out the cities that tries to enroach on us and get closer.

It is rare for villages in Götaland to remain this free from urbanization despite being nestled right in the middle of multiple major cities, and there's no excuse to destroy what little there is left of it down here in the south.

#whats more is that its getting easier and easier to buy local produce and meat and materials #the very thing both my parents and many others had to give up on when industrialization hit the final nail in the coffin #the thing that killed my farfar who inherited the old farm that stood no chance against industrialization #theres so much left to be done of course #for one it will be hard to reintroduce the flora thats vanished over the years #as a result of climate change and utterly botched use of the land and fields #not to mention the forest industry placing forest keepers in a position where they have to sell lumber in order to keep going #but god fucking damnit im not going to lose hope #i refuse to pass on without having at least tried to keep this place safe #the municipality can talk all they want about making it so more people can live here #out of all the locales within its borders we have several major towns one airport and access to two major cities #and YET we also have this one place of relatively untouched countryside with farmland and high biodiversity #without being rural thanks to the railroad and public transport #why shouldnt we preserve that! when the surrounding municipalities are constantly becoming hard to live in without cars!#theyll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers #silvi talks #im sorry i have a Lot of feelings about this

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