Bugs are dying out worldwide. It’s a catastrophe we may need to deal with in our lifetime, but solving it probably affects our agricultural abilities so we’re sitting this one out until we can’t wait anymore.

I don’t think it’s a “kids these days” problem. We’ve had “city people” and “country people” for centuries. And of course kids won’t pantomime a phone as if they lived in the 1980s, flip phones have been dead for a decade when they were born.

As far as city people go, I’d much rather have the kids that take a step back from a sheep approaching than the people who go into a field to pet a bull. Most animals most people are going to encounter aren’t scary or aggressive, but you still have to respect them. There was an outcry a while ago about someone (who apparently has never interacted with a cow before) walking up to a cow to take a bunch of selfies and got themselves hurt. Lots of people wanted restrictions on where cows could graze rather than teaching people that you should maybe not treat an animal seven to ten times your weight as if it’s a cute kitten.