I went to the local aviary today and they had some really mean things to say about owls.
One summer when I was a kid, we had a family of Great Horned Owls take up residence in our backyard, which meant that we became pretty friendly with our local raptor centre. One time they called us and said “Hey, we have this orphaned Great Horned Owl chick here, and we know you guys have some chicks in your yard, can we bring this little guy over and just put him in one of your trees?” My mom replied “Why? Won’t it just starve here? There are already 3 chicks.” The woman on the phone just responded “Oh don’t worry, owls can’t count! :) ”
To be fair, trouble counting is a problem with even smarter birds. You can put a ball in front of a nesting goose and it will roll it into the nest thinking its an egg.
You know what? This actually isn’t funny at all because this really does happen. Baby boomers can’t afford to retire; that’s a big part of why millennials can’t find jobs in their fields. And if they lose their jobs (which can mean a variety of things, including their companies finding an excuse to fire them so they don’t have to pay anything for their retirement, which happened to my uncle and 5 people he worked with over one year), they aren’t as desirable because they’re retirement-age. The world has changed a lot since they got jobs they thought were supposed to be secure, and now their old strategies that used to work for finding a job don’t work anymore and they don’t know what does work. So a lot are desperate; I recently talked to a woman who had to be in at least her mid-60s who was begging on a street corner because she was replaced by a younger person and lost her job of 18 years, and it’s not the first time I’ve heard a story like that. A lot of people who were never rich to begin with lost a lot in the 2008 financial crisis and never fully recovered. Baby boomers didn’t all just magically become financially secure as they got older.
This generation war bullshit is 100% manufactured to keep our anger misdirected. It’s not baby boomers screwing over millennials. It’s rich capitalists of every living generation screwing over baby boomers, their parents, gen x-ers, millennials, and gen z-ers all at once and all in different ways. And if we collectively realize that we’re not enemies and that we actually have a common cause with common enemies, it’ll be really bad for the people doing this to us, which is why they’re pushing the generation war thing so hard.
“The confrontation between logging company Teal-Jones and forest defenders in court is the result of the ongoing failure of the provincial government to follow through on their promise and deliver solutions to protect globally rare and endangered old-growth forest like the spectacularly intact Fairy Creek rainforest in Pacheedaht territory,” said Sierra Club BC campaigner Jens Wieting in a statement Thursday.
The Fairy Creek rainforest is the last intact watershed in the San Juan river system, representing an ancient and irreplaceable ecosystem, and if Teal-Jones is successful in logging it, trees hundreds to thousands of years old will be turned to sawdust…
[ Similar destruction in the nearby Caycuse watershed, where old-growth trees have been logged by Teal-Jones, photographed by TJ Watts. ]
Although this injunction has been granted, the defenders of Fairy Creek are not backing down, and are asking you to join the fight however you can.
B.C. Premier John Horgan: (250) - 387 - 1715 / premier@gov.bc.ca
Minister of Forests Katrine Conroy: (250) - 387 - 6240 / FLNR.Minister@gov.bc.ca
Minister of Enviro. George Heyman: (250) - 387 - 1187 / env.minister@gov.bc.ca
And Teal-Jones themselves, which can be reached at: (604) - 587 - 8700
Please take action for B.C.’s last old-growth forests, because we won’t have another chance to save them.
Please volunteer, donate, speak up, do whatever you can. Once these old growth trees, a vital part of the local & global ecosystem are gone, they’re gone and humans need trees for so many reasons. I wish I could go but I’m not even on the right side of the Atlantic.
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