The more I research about conservation, the more I cannot STAND climate doomerism.
“Ough oof we’re all gonna die, everything is going extinct, blaaaahhh”
Meanwhile there are so many efforts and projects that are like “Blease…volunteers…interested homeowners…….random individuals who care…..pleas……….literally begging………”
A bunch of stuff you can probably do even if you have no land, no money, and no or limited ability to do physical work
like, off the top of my head
- share social media posts from nearby conservation organizations so other people can see them
- talk to your neighbors. develop a friendly relationship with them. perhaps pepper in casual references to invasive plants and species in decline around you (I have done this)
- but talk to your neighbors for its own sake
- teach your friends and any kids you may know cool facts about bugs, snakes and creatures so they will care more about them
- teach your mom and your dad and your grandma about creatures like spiders and snakes. help people to appreciate them.
- make and/or post relevant memes. my anti lawn memes and other memes are free for you to repost without credit.
- maybe even make a meme page idk
- look up the sounds of birds that live in your area on youtube. impress others with your ability to identify bird calls. increase knowledge of people around you.
- vote in local elections
- do not have an outside cat. Don’t even do it for the wildlife, do it for the poor cat. Don’t take my word for it on this, go google the kinds of worms cats can get.
- Since the bird flu is going around, tell other people you know with outside cats and inform them that eating a bird could literally kill their cat. this is just a good idea to do regardless
- if you have a cat, whether they are outside or inside or not, try leash training them. tell other people. post online if you want. If you are capable of doing so, take your cat out on a leash to chill in the yard with them or walk with them or whatever you want to do.
- “some cats can be leash trained” will be pointless to say until people see other people walking cats. Be the first in your neighborhood to be crazy enough to do it
- if you have a friend with a garden, ask if they’d like to take your compostable stuff for their compost
- or just start a compost pile. you don’t have to have a garden to have compost. just make compost and give it to people,?? 
This isn’t even getting into existing ways to organize in your community this is just random crap
The people who are doing the work you can’t do are set back by stuff like “people think bugs and snakes are scary and harmful, so they don’t care about saving them”
But you CAN help change the way other people see bugs and snakes, if you have contact with other people at all
share!!!! your!!!!! knowledge!!!!! with!! people!!!!!! please! People are RIDICULOUSLY uninformed about nature
*I* know that snakes are good for the ecosystem, that there are only two species of venomous snake in my area, and that snakes are timid and absolutely don’t chase you, but that doesn’t mean everybody else knows that and more people than you would think actually don’t
The noticing points in particular–learning to identify invasive plants or native birdsongs–are so important, as is helping others notice. Noticing is the first step to appreciation. How can you miss or be afraid of losing something you didn’t even know was there? Learn to better see the world around you and how the pieces fit together and work in tandem, and you’ll instantly find things worth protecting and understand why they need it!
to the casual observer it may look like i’m trying to summon a demon but anyone who knows me will realize that i am simply calling my wife
The wife and the demon are the same person
The fact that these replies would mean wildly different thing had they been said on a different platform, such as Facebook, is absolutely hilarious
me before getting to the end of this post
Annoying that dairy products are demonized as Unnatural and Disgusting when it’s actually kinda neat that humans figured out a way to fulfill omnivorous nutritional requirements without killing any animals (and populations historically dependent on dairy even evolved lactase persistence!). This is biopunk to me
I’ve seen weird memes and stuff like “Milk is BODILY FLUID that came from a COW” and the fact that people exist that would find this distressing concerns me.
Y'all are not going to like learning what fruits are…
A fruit is an OVARY that because SWOLLEN AND ENLARGED after PLANT GENITALS were rubbed in PLANT SPERM by a BUG
Tuunbaq relaxing after eating these british sailors.
THE CUTEST
this year i’m thankful for this fucking image