More on Butterlies

From the comments on my last post about butterflies, EM wrote:

Yes.
https://www.sciencing.com/1859920/why-butterflies-disappearing/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7812787/
https://www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/news/more-half-uk-butterflies-are-long-term-decline

I appreciate those links, and I certainly appreciate EM, who had been a long-time reader and valuable commenter.

But I replied

Thanks. I'll read those links eventually. When I wrote this post I was trying to avoid the science and numbers of the issue. I was just expressing my emotions about my realization and my anger and sadness at the butterfly situation. Butterflies are so beautiful. I'm angry they're no longer around. I'm angry that generations after me will never see them fluttering around. As a little kid I remember being in my yard, my mother handing up wet laundry on a clothesline, and butterflies were about. They were there easily. Now they've been mostly destroyed and why? Fucking homo sapien sapiens who destroy everything.

I think I'm being heavily influenced by this book I'm still reading, The Myth of Human Supremacy by Derrick Jensen. I don't buy everything he writes, like humans should live without electricity in order to save the rest of the biosphere. He's very angry at what humans--homo sapien sapiens, ha ha--have done to the planet and all the other species on the planet. I agree with some of what he writes. I'm really not sure if we (humans) wouldn't be better off living as indigenous people did 500 years. Without electricity. I certainly know their life wasn't perfect--and sometimes I think Jensen overlooks their suffering--and it sometimes involved warfare and the conquering of other tribes and their land.

But they weren't destroying the planet and heavily affecting a great many other species, plants and animals. (Jensen mostly overlooks plants.) 

He's an anarcho-primitivism and I'm really not sure that is so crazy. Living as before the Industrial Revolution. Has that transition really brought us that much? Has it caused more good than harm, or more harm than good? Not just good for us, but good for the entire Earth ecosystem, all the animals and plants that are trying to live besides us? Is science and its technology more good than bad? We've devastated the planet and many of its species and for what? To sleep in air-conditioned bedrooms? To be able to buy Pokémon cards and fresh fruit from South America?

Anyway, I'm just thinking. And kind of angry. Perhaps more later.