Silent spring. This Pyracantha hedge (London, UK) last year was covered in insects . . . yesterday just a solitary Andrena scotica and a few honeybees and flies. Impressionistic records of insect population can't be more than that. Local weather conditions this year (esp that late frost) may be something to do with it -- has there been any discussion of this? But still, it's eerily silent. #insects #bees #bioabundance https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/28/conserve-insects-or-birds-will-vanish-with-them?fbclid=IwAR3BqZ1VlWy_ZsoPJD-C9sGFZJUTsGl-Pb2dts9zuT3wGDY1d-TYiCfXhH0

Tipula vernalis -- first one I've seen, a sign of Spring -- at Gillespie Park, #Islington, reclaimed from railway and industrial land. A common cranefly with an interesting wing pattern and striking green eyes. #Bioabundance matters in different ways, and just as much, as #Biodiversity. #ClimateDiary #insects

I began to take note of these calculations about the weight of wild animals, industrially raised animals and animals for human uses (which fundamentally show up the scale of the multiple disasters of human re-ordering of the planet's biomass), a few years ago when an Australian writer did an essay on them -- afraid I forget her name. #EverdayEcocide #biomass #bioabundance #extinction https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/18/a-wake-up-call-total-weight-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-humanitys

Nice productive year described here in pursuit of a sustainable relationship between H. sapiens and the rest of this living planet. Have to get @findingnature on a @columbiaclimate #sustasinwhat brainstorm in '23. More on #bioabundance: https://revkin.substack.com/?sort=search&search=biodiversity
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@bridgetmck I am finding it hard to work out where and how to use political energies right now, to shift thinking on #EverydayEcocide or elsewhere. My instinct is still that these gatherings (COP and others) matter and, depressing as the compromises are, they need to be logged and at least described. I am reading, now about #CoP19 -- found this good https://chinadialogueocean.net/en/conservation/explainer-why-cites-matters-for-marine-species/ but feel increasingly in need of a local focus for political work, for people and for #bioabundance