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Tell your teenager the world needs more people like him if we’re going to save the worlds insects. We need more entomologist.
by bonnie76 5y ago
Tell your teenager the world needs more people like him if we’re going to save the worlds insects. We need more entomologist.
- wincy 5y agoI don’t know, insects have been doing pretty well for a long time, and only one large group of insects that we know of has ever gone extinct, even during the absolutely horrific Permian-Triassic extinction event. I know as humans our impulse is to “do something about it”, but I think insects are gonna be fine.
- ryanianian 5y agoSure insects in general will be "fine", but ecosystems will have to be rebuilt over time with the different dynamics. Take bees/pollinators. Another species could evolve or otherwise step in to fill the gap, but it could well result in many other plant and animal species also going extinct in the process. Similar scenario with climate change. The earth will continue to exist and there will continue to be weather. But that weather could be a lot more inhospitable to our very narrow definition of habitable.
- onemoresoop 5y agoYes, I know global warming doesn't mean the end of the (human) world as many suspect and are skeptical about. Humans will find a way to survive in special habitats and in much smaller numbers. What's at stake is the current civilization. With civilization's collapse we're bound to repeat this progress to self-destruction cycle.
- btilly 5y agoInsects may do fine, but individual species are another story. For example through most of Los Angeles, if you see an ant it is probably an Argentine ant (Linepithema humile). Over my son's life, the variety of native ants to be found near me has visibly declined.
- dexterdog 5y agoThat's probably not so much climate change as it is invading foreign species.
- btilly 5y agoAnd the reduction in flying insects documented in https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... is unlikely to be climate change either. Nor is https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/colony-collapse-disorder https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/colony-collapse-di.... Not everything is about climate change.
- markdown 5y agoWhat isn't about climate change soon will be.
- raxxorrax 5y agoThe ants in my garden can probably repopulate the whole world. At least it feels that way.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y agoAnd I appreciated the parent (pun not intended) for being interested in kid's uncommon hobby.