6,000 year old prairie destroyed with herbicide

[SRS 9]

Authentic (not man-made) tallgrass prairie is now at 1/2 of one percent of its original acreage, according to an article I read recently.

The monarch butterfly is also supposed to be endangered but it was argued that there aren't enough resources to officially list it.

Humans continue to breed beyond sustainability and almost all of them want to consume/generate waste ever-more unsustainably.

When I was a kid in the late 1970s, a tree in front of my house was completely covered with migrating monarch butterflies. Fields and wetlands were all around my town. All of those are gone. Strip malls replaced the wetlands and the fields are houses/condos/stores. One can't even see the lake anymore in some areas because of the housing.

Highways are going in where the prairie remnants are. People had to try to desperately transplant Mead's milkweed. Milkweeds do not transplant successfully when they're mature, the vast majority of the time. The soil was also destroyed, although they tried to move some of it. One can't go to Lowe's and get that in a bag.

Neonics have increased toxin exposure astronomically for insects and even the pretty flowers one buys for one's garden are likely saturated with them.

I really wonder what there is to live for when people have a manic look in their eyes as they lobby to be able to have ever-more reckless use of chemicals in the guise of prosperity. What is the motivation that I am supposed to find? I want a world where the monarch butterfly exists — not one with more strip malls and crazy-eyed folk who think they're cleverly playing a game.

Ecological Cannibalism may make for a great survival game title but it's not a nice basis for living.