It’s a simple philosophy. The things we share are the things we save. The topics we discuss are the topics we deal with. The ideals we neglect? They fade away.
What would you miss the most, if climate change made it disappear from your favourite natural area? That question is asked in the video above. The question is blunt but needs to be discussed. Why? Because we create the world of tomorrow from the thoughts we share today.
To discover what everybody else would miss, I posted the video on Twitter last week, using the hashtag #IWouldMiss. The wonderful responses are collated below. The messages are not at all gloomy. I read them as a statement of commitment and intent. These are the things we will work to save. Enjoy.
#IWouldMiss – Oceans, Beaches, Rivers and Wetlands
#IWouldMiss – Birds of Many Colors
#IWouldMiss – Healthy, Diverse Ecosystems
#IWouldMiss – Amazing Critters, Big and Small
@IanLuntEcology twitter.com/IanLuntEcology… #IWouldMiss autumn fungi, need sufficient moisture to "fruit". http://t.co/M8xV6Dm8Jn
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Ben Courtice (@bencourtice) September 25, 2014
#IWouldMiss – Tall Trees and Colorful Flowers
#IWouldMiss – Nature’s Cathedral
#IWouldMiss … Everything!
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What would you miss the most, if it were to vanish from your favorite natural area?
Please share your thoughts in the comments below. As in the tweets above, short thoughts are best.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to everyone who shared their favourite natural things on Twitter. My apologies if I missed any. By the time you read this blog there will, undoubtedly, be more #IWouldMiss tweets on Twitter. I hope this blog encourages even more. The original photo of the red-tailed cockatoos is from Wikipedia and the wren photo is from the web.
Need help to interpret a tweet?
A tweet is message, less than 140 characters long, sent on Twitter. The name of the person who wrote each tweet is shown at the top of each message. The symbol “@” is placed at the start of a person’s Twitter name or address. Thus my twitter address is @ianluntecology, just as my email address is: ianluntecology [at] gmail.com. The hashtag symbol “#” indicates a searchable term on Twitter. All tweets containing the hashtag #IWouldMiss can be easily retrieved, which is how I collated the messages for this blog post.
Photos embedded at the top of a tweet were sent with the tweet. Photos between tweets are mine or are from the web. Hyperlinks like this – pic.twitter.com/vkRVFqIlI6 – link to a picture or web page. The abbreviation “MT” stands for Modified Tweet, and indicates that the following text was modified from an earlier tweet sent by someone else. So there you have it. If nothing else, the 140 character limit enforces admirable brevity.
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The awe of it.
I would miss the dawn chorus of birds and the sound of frogs in a bubbling creek running over stones in a beautiful woodland.
The awe of it? Hi Cathy,e-mail me!
Neville
Vicarious pleasure knowing that pygmy possums still existed even if I cannot see them!
Thanks Cathy, Leslie & Max for adding more wonderful things to the list! Cheers Ian
The wow of my local, urban Flying-fox camp streaming out at dusk
Hi Deb, thanks very much for adding to the amazing list of things everyone would hate to lose. Best wishes Ian
Excellent post Ian – I really enjoyed reading all of these.
Thanks Els, I’m glad you enjoyed them, it was great to be able to collate so many fantastic tweets. Best wishes Ian