Below is an interesting link on the apparent recent monarch butterfly population increase:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4927062/u...erfly-habitat/
This reminded me of a conversion I had last year at the RA Chess Club's building's bar & grill with someone who has retired from the Privacy Commission, and more to the point is also an NDP voter. The latter is remarkable given the many views he had that were atypical of left-wing dogmatic beliefs/propaganda, namely that he believed (besides that the internet has a lot of garbage on it):
1. Monarch butterfly population has not ever been declining;
2. No manmade global climate change;
3. Arctic [sea] ice levels are fine, so-called satellite images be damned;
4. No decline ever in the world's honeybee population;
5. No decline ever in the world's bird population;
6. No decline ever in the world's fish population;
7. No great island of trash in the Pacific.
Last edited by Kevin Pacey; 08-13-2019 at 02:14 AM.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.