One of my favourite comic artists ever. His comics are equal parts bleak & funny. Found at https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-talk/
Do they live near Salad Fingers?
And do they like it when the red stuff comes out?
when it comes to describing bees and birds,
i’m sorry but i’m at a loss for words.
we can’t hear them buzz or sing
because – see, here’s the thing –
human beings are just massive turds.
Not that I’m trying to pick apart a darkly funny comic meant to hilight the bleak future we seem to be barreling towards… But where do they get their nutrient paste?
I don’t see a greenhouse so actual food is unlikely, and given the barren nature of their surroundings, either the dwelling is embedded into rock, or they don’t go anywhere outside, hence the lack of a path or tracks. So no buying food.
Are they immortal? Cursed to live on a dead rock until the sun expands past the orbit of the earth? (I choose to believe this)
And here I thought my day was bad…
The dad goes out and murders people, justifying it as feeding he family.
But where do they get their nutrient paste?
Nanotech-fabricated in corporate labs, delivered through underground pipes. The paste will flow, so long as they do their remote jobs (porn for the mother, bot farm management for the father, exposure to AI test output for the child.)
Maybe they have like an underground greenhouse with artificial light and irrigation
That was my next thought, but then where do they get their power, water, and oxygen?
I suppose it could be like a “reserve the surface room for a day” kind of thing, and hundreds of people live down below, with enough space for greenhouses and algea pools for oxygen production. Geothermal power, or simply a solar farm out of view, and deep underground natural water reservoirs…
I still think the immortal people in an indestructible house is probably the best bet.
So the look of this is similar to Silo 18 from wool and in that case they straight up used fossil fuels. The top bit was just for their exit and the cameras.
Gotta cook the radroaches when they come through the ground.
Very Blade Runner 2049 indeed, but those guys at least had greenhouses where they farmed edible insects
It’s a rather large misconception that bees are somehow required for pollinisation. That’s completely underestimating the value of butterflies, and how much they contribute to pollinisation. Even if all bees were to disappear overnight, the impact will hardly be Earth shattering. The most drastic thing that’ll happen is Humans losing an industry.
Without bees there will be a minor blank spot in a niche that already has other insects doing the same.
But that’s assuming that bees are actually dying. There are thousands of species of bee in the world, or even on just a single continent, and they’re doing… Fine… Ish. About as fine as any other creature on Earth being effected by Humans and climate change. The ones everyone is so concerned about is specifically the honey bee.
Honey bees are not even the best pollinators. No, the real concern with the dying of honey bees is that the honey industry will lose money. So honey bees dying is a corporate fear!
There are different kinds of pollinators. Some bees are what is called buzz pollinators, and they are the best pollinators for a whole bunch of different plants. These bees are struggling, partially because we have too many honey bees who are out-competing them.
Honey bees are doing absolutely fine though. And they’re pretty fucking terrible on other/native pollinators.
