I've been so happy to see them in our yard this year. Enough so that I've stopped clearing brush just in case that's why they're here in such numbers. I haven't seen them like this in a decade or more.

capitalism will kill us all, starting with the smallest and most defenseless

You would not believe your eyes if ten fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep

Pasolini wrote a famous essay in 1975, "The Disappearance of the Fireflies," which, at that time, was already starting to become very noticeable. Of course, the essay was really about capitalism.
Personally, outside my childhood in the countryside, I noticed fireflies in the outskirts of a largish city some 20 years ago, then nothing for a very long time, and then I saw a few when I lived for a brief period of time in a really remote place, like an hour from the nearest highway. No trains anywhere near, too.

Off-topic, but if you don't know Pasolini, I urge you to read his last interview which seems particularly gloomy as it appears to foreshadow his own death just a few hours after.
One memorable quote:

I listen to the politicians – all the politicians – with all their little presumptions and I turn into a mad man as they prove they do not know which country they are talking about, they are as far away as the moon. And together with them there are the men of letters, the sociologists and the experts in any kind of field.

I had wondered why we always seemed to have some fireflies here and it turned out my hatred of raking and leaving the leaves under the bushes helped a lot!

Stop raking your leaves

This is a wild concept to me. I see hundreds if not thousands every night in the summer.

Used to catch them growing up. There would be thousands of them periodically blinking in the yard and across the field every night. It was pretty and serene.

I saw one just the other night when I let my dogs out before going to bed. It was so surprising that I had to wait a minute and verify I wasn't just seeing things. It was a real life lightning bug. It was a happy sad moment.

Upon further investigation, it appears that only SOME species of fireflies are at risk of extinction. Others are so common they are of "least concern".

If foreign propaganda bots are bombarding us with doomer memes to instill apathy and depression in the younger generation, this fits.

Wikipedia says the species near me (southern Ontario) are of Least Concern for extinction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photuris_lucicrescens

Recent IUCN Red List assessments for North American fireflies have identified species with heightened extinction risk in the US, with 18 taxa categorized as threatened with extinction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly#cite_ref-40

Alexa, play Owl City - Fireflies

More seriously, I'm pleased to see I'm not the only person who views this as a terrible loss.

I convinced my inlaws to stop bagging or raking their leaves a few years ago, and they're everywhere now. Not as many as if the whole neighborhood has done it, but more than when I met them.

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