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It's almost as if we have spent 50 years ignoring and accelerating climate change...

• throw_pm23 4y ago
  Drop in insect and butterfly numbers has nothing to do with climate change. It is due to pesticides being pumped in unprecedented quantities into nature and monoculture agriculture.
  • AlexandrB 4y ago
    It doesn't have "nothing" to do with climate change. Climate change probably contributes to habitat loss as weather becomes less favourable for some species in areas where they could probably survive before. Pesticide use the is cost you pay for cheap food, meat heavy diets, and other benefits of living in "western" society. Sure we could grow food without pesticides, but it would cost more. It might also require more land - which would probably also impact insect populations.
• avgcorrection 4y ago
  Why just fifty years?
  • LatteLazy 4y ago
    Before 50 years ago, it was at least debatable whether everyone knew. Now everyone knows. And has for at least a generation. You fuck things up without realizing, then you get to be surprised they're fucked up. You spend 50 years doing it knowingly, you don't get to act shocked when insects numbers are plummeting and once per century forest fires are happening every year and France gets zero rain for all of Feb... Welcome to the new normal. The one we all knowingly ordered.