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So this report came out yesterday: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature https://www.theguar
by patientplatypus 8y ago
So this report came out yesterday: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeti....
"The 2.5% rate of annual loss (of insect biomass) over the last 25-30 years is “shocking”, Sánchez-Bayo told the Guardian: “It is very rapid. In 10 years you will have a quarter less, in 50 years only half left and in 100 years you will have none.”
So, in 100 years all insects will die. All of them. And therefore us, long beforehand.
So this "reduction of poverty" through capitalist economic expansion has been achieved by the use of pesticides for cheap food, plastic, global warming etc. How can anyone claim that reduction of poverty is a good thing when it comes at the cost of the survival of the entire world ecosystem?
- sedor123 8y agoNeedlessly apocalyptic thinking. No one knows what will happen as a result of this reduction in insect biomass, that is literally the definition of unprecedented... Every time some alarmist starts preaching apocalyptic nonsense because of a story like this, nature inevitably plugs the hole. Do you remember the climate alarmists telling us Florida would be underwater up to the panhandle by 2010? Yeah, we are still using those same models, just tweaked around the edges. Academics are not as smart as they would have you believe.
- patientplatypus 8y agoHaving no more insects is needlessly alarmist? What would be worrying to you if not that? Yikes.