Didn't see any cicadas this year? You guessed it, it's probably due to 'racism' (global warming, Brown)

[uggabugga]

there's absolutely nothing these woketards won't blame on 'racism'

even better, this clown thinks he'll need to invoke CRT in order to properly explain it to schookids.

When students ask why they haven’t seen cicadas, we need to talk about environmental racism
Laws targeting critical race theory shouldn’t keep teachers from giving children an honest answer

want to see cicadas? plant some trees, ya dimwit

[Cape Cod Todd]

I don't know what is worse, blaming the lack of cicadas on racism or global warming? Both can certainly be the reason for the lack of bugs. I don't think it is segregation or redlining that did it but who knows. Leave it to a Lefty to slither through the weeds to emerge with some whacky theory about why city kids are not seeing cicadas.



Maybe the bugs got the word that cities are not the place to be due to Covid concerns, rising crime, shootouts in the streets, random assaults, the woke mob cancelling everything and the SJW's tearing down the rest and not to mention the defunding of Police. Who would want to visit a city? It turns out not even the bugs.

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd

I don't know what is worse, blaming the lack of cicadas on racism or global warming? Both can certainly be the reason for the lack of bugs. I don't think it is segregation or redlining that did it but who knows. Leave it to a Lefty to slither through the weeds to emerge with some whacky theory about why city kids are not seeing cicadas.

Maybe the bugs got the word that cities are not the place to be due to Covid concerns, rising crime, shootouts in the streets, random assaults, the woke mob cancelling everything and the SJW's tearing down the rest and not to mention the defunding of Police. Who would want to visit a city? It turns out not even the bugs.

even cicadas know better than to cross any street with MLK in its name.

[warhorse78]

Or maybe they aren't out yet. They come out after so many years.

[armourereric]

They boycotted my area because of the bathroom bill

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by warhorse78

Or maybe they aren't out yet. They come out after so many years.

they are out in Indy this year, at least in the parts that have trees.

[NVplumber]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

there's absolutely nothing these woketards won't blame on 'racism'

even better, this clown thinks he'll need to invoke CRT in order to properly explain it to schookids.

When students ask why they haven’t seen cicadas, we need to talk about environmental racism
Laws targeting critical race theory shouldn’t keep teachers from giving children an honest answer

want to see cicadas? plant some trees, ya dimwit

We have plenty of cicadas here. Yep, here in the high desert of N NV.If your window is rolled down going down the road they are quite audible. I remember them is decades past just the way they are now. Environmental racism? WTH is that?

[StillwaterTownie]

You hear cicadas, you don't see them. I heard some last night.

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

want to see cicadas? plant some trees

Want to understand the story you linked in your original post? Read past the headline.

And for anyone else too lazy to read the whole story:

One of the lasting impacts of segregation is environmental injustice, and it impacts humans and cicadas alike. Most of our city’s toxic brownfields are located in Center Township south of 38th Street and along the northern Mass Ave corridor, another line of segregation. The lingering arsenic, mercury, and lead in water and soil impacts human health while also sickening or killing cicadas gestating underground. These lands are often paved over to become asphalt deserts, and the compacted, rubble-filled soil that drives flood water into people’s homes also makes it harder for cicadas to burrow, let alone emerge.

It's common knowledge that periodic cicadas don't flourish in great numbers where the ground has recently been disturbed, paved over, etc. While the author makes the connection between traditionally black neighborhoods, density, a paucity of trees and unpaved earth, post-industrial land use, and the lack of periodic cicadas, he ignores that cicadas also are scarce in dense downtown areas and redeveloped areas.

In summary: He's partly right.

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by Ohiogirl81

Want to understand the story you linked in your original post? Read past the headline.

And for anyone else too lazy to read the whole story:



It's common knowledge that periodic cicadas don't flourish in great numbers where the ground has recently been disturbed, paved over, etc. While the author makes the connection between traditionally black neighborhoods, density, a paucity of trees and unpaved earth, post-industrial land use, and the lack of periodic cicadas, he ignores that cicadas also are scarce in dense downtown areas and redeveloped areas.

In summary: He's partly right.

I read the entire story. insipidly insisting that I only read the headline because you want to defend this mouth-breathing yutz is just what we've come to expect from you

in summary: he's a 'racism!!'-shrieking nutbag.

cicadas can't live in concrete.