hotwarioinyourarea [he/him]@hexbear.net to Earth@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoI feel very strongly that pigeons are beautiful birds and that we take them for granted.hexbear.netimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up182arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up182arrow-down1imageI feel very strongly that pigeons are beautiful birds and that we take them for granted.hexbear.nethotwarioinyourarea [he/him]@hexbear.net to Earth@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMagician [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoThere’s something about the way people see nature when it’s categorized as a pest or nuisance. Weeds are only designated such because of the aesthetics around landowning, lawns and ‘tamed’ land. It’s a really depressing, but salient phenomenon because then people without lawns start to value their aesthetics and suddenly care about pests. And this sort of logic can be directed at anything or anyone.
There’s something about the way people see nature when it’s categorized as a pest or nuisance.
Weeds are only designated such because of the aesthetics around landowning, lawns and ‘tamed’ land.
It’s a really depressing, but salient phenomenon because then people without lawns start to value their aesthetics and suddenly care about pests.
And this sort of logic can be directed at anything or anyone.