Even just a few years ago, when mowing the lawn, I'd be making bees flee from their buzzing round the clover. No pesticides, no herbicides in my yard, lots of nectar-bearing flowers, clover continuing to proliferate in the lawn - but where are the bees? Oh, to be at the risk of a bee sting!
For that matter, where are the squirrels? The "green acres" behind my house are empty; and not one squirrel shows up to eye the bird-feeders. (What is new is a pair of chipmunks.).
My little pond got one froggy visitor last year. None so far this year.
I think just like people in the red states seem oblivious of the COVID-19 virus, or at best, "oh, its just like the flu", humanity is sleepwalking through an ecological crisis; but will be suddenly woken up to the unsustainability of what it is doing. Unlike our other crises, there is no November 3rd election day, or new vaccine or treatment that hold out the possibility of life going back to normal.
