All you city boomers should’ve never left your parents’ farms.

You abandoned a way of life that sustained humans for thousands of years, and in doing so robbed an entire generation of that knowledge.

Now we’re two generations deep in people who don’t know life beyond the glitz and glamour of the city.

They’re huddling in apartments, too classy or conditioned to see how dependent they are on those very farms their grandparents turned their backs on.

Robots! Automation! Technological fundamentalism! you cry, promising these and all problems of the future will be solved by human innovation.

Meanwhile nobody has the slightest clue how to fix our damaged ecosystem; damaged by the very industries creating that glitz and glamour.

However, the earth will show the way for anyone willing to listen. Dolphins in canals, clear air in LA, goats wandering city streets... the impact of 7.5 billion people can’t be overlooked when we see what happens in their absence.

My hope is that a significant percentage of the work-from-home crowd flees the cities in the coronavirus aftermath, bringing back small town America, but with some environmental awareness this time.

My hope is the next generation learns as much about farming as they do algebra.

Oh yeah, I should’ve prefaced this thread with: UNPOPULAR OPINION