At home, the oligarchs poison us slowly, with more shit in the food supply, more sewage in the waterways, more pollution in the air, water, and soil. Trump and his monstrous allies stand for profits over people, very much at the expense of our lives. (Their cultists, the Fascist Fifth of the population, are seemingly eager to sacrifice themselves and their children for their masters’ cause.) Other life forms are even more expendable.
Abroad, the capitalist gangsters are more direct and upfront with their murders. The Monarch Butterfly advocate Homero Gómez González has been found dead after missing for two weeks. He was murdered by gangsters and/or illegal loggers, essentially one and the same where illicit businesses are entities of organized crime.
Consumer demand, for drugs, lumber, avocados, much of it from the U.S., drive Mexico’s violent kleptocracy.
Know what you’re buying; look before you leap into complicity. The horrors are usually hidden away behind the packaging and the advertising, so start with the assumption that the corporate entity is a criminal enterprise. One simple act of refusal is to not sell you eyes to the Stuporbowl. A second is to stop using Amazon.
Gómez’s video of massing butterflies are mesmerizing.
The murder of environmentalists and other dissenters is standard operating procedure in authoritarian regimes. The Republican Party, and the props and fools who vote for them, are moving us in this direction every day.
All the Monarch caterpillars I’ve seen this month in Green-Wood. Not overwhelmed by the numbers, unlike two years ago.
Black Swallowtail for a change of pace.
Backyard and Beyond 