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The word this week is: LOST.
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I'm writing today about the Hard Things to Lose.... they don't usually come back. It was tough to write this, but it continually gets lost in the clatter and speed of modern life while Loss usually gets palyed out over decades and is almost invisible to most Americans.
Birds, the delicate though truly tough, got lost in the rush to have cash crops to send over seas, because we slowly lost the industrial base and millions of jobs with it.
Lost: millions upon millions of birds to DDT, something that Rachel Carson fought long and hard, in and out of Congress to get off the farmlands of America.
Lost, to the draining of marshlands which have only recently- within the last forty or so years been slowly moving from their former designations as "wastelands".
Lost: most of the world's pollinators, because of newer neuro-toxin based pesticides that weakened their immune systems and set them up for decline into near oblivion.
Lost, all those money mad individuals who KNEW and let it happen anyway.
Lost: Health in human motherss? The babies in the womb? Food on the table for lack of pollinators?
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Like to play along this week?
Go HERE to read the "minutes" (rules of )
of the meet-up.
The word this week is: LOST.
Start:
I'm writing today about the Hard Things to Lose.... they don't usually come back. It was tough to write this, but it continually gets lost in the clatter and speed of modern life while Loss usually gets palyed out over decades and is almost invisible to most Americans.
Birds, the delicate though truly tough, got lost in the rush to have cash crops to send over seas, because we slowly lost the industrial base and millions of jobs with it.
Lost: millions upon millions of birds to DDT, something that Rachel Carson fought long and hard, in and out of Congress to get off the farmlands of America.
Lost, to the draining of marshlands which have only recently- within the last forty or so years been slowly moving from their former designations as "wastelands".
Lost: most of the world's pollinators, because of newer neuro-toxin based pesticides that weakened their immune systems and set them up for decline into near oblivion.
Lost, all those money mad individuals who KNEW and let it happen anyway.
Lost: Health in human motherss? The babies in the womb? Food on the table for lack of pollinators?
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You've given me something unexpected to think about today. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading it! I always have a harder time with this meme because of a long memory. First thing that pops up into the old head is a bit of a ramble!
DeleteThose are terrible losses and you are right, they are often overlooked.
ReplyDeleteYes, Wendy, they certainly are. It might have been completely invisible, this more modern die off and disappearance of bees and other pollinators, for instance, but a third (I think) of our food comes from their work. Both scientists and bee keepers took alarm.
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