To that point people covered things up more "back in the day"
Group of athletes murder someone at school for being gay? Can't have the local sports team lose the season, let's just sweep that under the rug and say a drifter did it!
I'd say only thing that changed is it's harder to hide or excuse these situations.
So ginkgo's that do fruit. The fruit smells like dead fish, vomit, or rancid butter. They smell HORRIBLE and apparently that was a very attractive scent to the prehistoric animals and insects that did eat them. Yum yum.
Luckily most Ginkgo's sold for landscaping these days are unable to produce fruit.
I have had the displeasure of smelling ginkgo fruit, because fun fact #2, a lot of cities decided years back they were very cheap and urban friendly to plant the OG ginkgo's during city planning, but were unaware of the horror they would reek once they matured. Ginkgo's grow very slowly. So something like 30+ years later, city planners realized their horrible mistakes and had to chop a lot down once they started dropping fruit. Still everyone in these cities would suffer a few years of the city smelling like a sewage dump every late summer.
I do not claim to be an expert ginkgoligist, but those are some fun tid bits I learned.
I do agree something needs done about climate change. But as someone who deeply appreciates art and understands how important it is to preserve it, I think protesters have a lot more avenue's to gain attention AND actually target something related to climate change.
Why not go throw soup on a representative or maybe throw soup on the door of a famous municipal building. Target government, they ultimately make the decisions.
At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.
To that point people covered things up more "back in the day"
Group of athletes murder someone at school for being gay? Can't have the local sports team lose the season, let's just sweep that under the rug and say a drifter did it!
I'd say only thing that changed is it's harder to hide or excuse these situations.