As the soundscape of the natural world began to disappear over 30 years, one man was listening and recording it all
  • paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    7 months ago

    “I’ve got to this point in my life now where I just don’t know quite how to handle it, or how to express it, or what to say – yet I’ve got to tell people what I see and what I hear. Actually, I don’t need to say anything – the messages are revealed through the soundscapes.”

    This data of how things are now or were 50 years or more ago is so important to bring our love for nature into the future where it will be farther and farther from people’s everyday lives and memories. People already don’t know what they are missing, the changes even from my childhood.

  • theJWPHTER88@kbin.social
    4·
    7 months ago

    With how us humans, regardless of social standing, continue to develop our entire civilization, especially with our immediate surroundings, for the past several centuries, the rate at which we are doing so has been slowly speeding up with newfound technologies and measures, a side effect that of which has been slowly replacing the sweet, calming ambience of nature itself with the brutalist, artificial statis of urban life, without much regard to the creatures we are supposed to take care of and equally preserve for generations to come.
    Truly, if we do not ever strive and make pushes towards a sort of a humane-ecological balance, alongside tackling greed as a major factor in this critical climate crisis, we might as well see the Earth’s natural resources go “Stand Still, Stay Silent”.