innervision961
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Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after insects count drop 75% over 25 years
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The Auxiliary
Member
welp time for Black Mirror
demosthenes
Member
I drive to Ohio frequently from buffalo ny and can say that I kill tons per trip still.
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
Holy shit. That is fucking terrifying.
Monkeyball
Banned
Our weekly doom research.
Royal_Phalanx
Member
I hate bugs, good riddance, I don't care if a certain Ultimate Entomologist would cave my face in for that
Katie Hopkins and Richard Littlejohn are fucked.
Lightning_Roller
Banned
So, you're ignoring that insects make up a huge part of our ecosystem and without them, we die? But hey, at least those nasty bugs are gone, right?
Lol, sure. Whatever you say. Our lives will go on if we don't have shit eating insects being shit eating insects. We pollen, plant, and harvest much more then they ever could do for us.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
Are we the baddies?
pretty done
Member
I hate bugs and I'll be dead before this alleged Armageddon hits. I'm fine with this. Take the remaining 25% please.
I actually think part of the change is that cars are more aerodynamic. The wind is whooshing the bugs over the car more than it did in the past.
Also I ageee I still kill plenty on a summer night.
titiklabingapat
Member
Fuck, I know that mega fauna destruction is happening but did not know about the insects dying off too. I always had the impression that they are fine since they are tiny and reproduce quickly, and thus can adapt faster.
I won't be surprised if the cause is the pesticides that is accumulating everywhere due to agriculture. That shit at low levels is doing something and doesnt just go away quickly.
I won't be surprised if the cause is the pesticides that is accumulating everywhere due to agriculture. That shit at low levels is doing something and doesnt just go away quickly.
if I was you, I'd be on high alert around Ultimate Ornithologists as well
marvelharvey
Member
EDF! EDF!
So they all just retired to Florida?
pretty much when the blight happens, we are fucked. and then Trump will just blame Obama. Even if he's not president at the moment.
We pollinate using bees.. you know, a flying insect.
hydragonwarrior
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The CEO's and President's of the big pesticide industries most likely have a "Get rich and fuck everyone else attitude" and that's pretty much goin to lead to this armageddon. Until that attitude up top is replaced, more than likely this will contribute to some serious famine down the road.
We have been manufacturing and pollinating for years, if not decades already. Even "organic" farmers don't even rely on insects. Are you saying every fruit and plant that's sprouted in the last 10 years have been the work of bees, mosquitoes, and Flys? No, they became irrelevant.
Beaniedude
Member
This makes me sad
Obliterator
Member
No sarcasm think about how many cars are in the road per day. Then think about how many of those hit bugs.
It might not be the main contribution but it has to have a large scale affect in their population no doubt
Saucycarpdog
Member
Nah. The solution is to do vertical indoor farming. It improves production, creates less waste, and doesn't affect ecological habitats.
Don't know why you suddenly go fo the most extreme solution when there's alternatives.
timetokill
Banned
Good luck trying to get people to care about insects.
We have a hard enough time getting them to care about dolphins and cute shit like that.
We have a hard enough time getting them to care about dolphins and cute shit like that.
Ether_Snake
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How do you massively reduce the use of pesticide and land used for farming without vertical farming? I didn't need to mention it.
But you won't be growing beef in vertical farms. So people have to change their eating habits, and it would be drastic. Combine vertical farming with what I have described and you have a real solution. Vertical farming would not be sufficient.
And I am not even mentioning the energy savings and space savings resulting from taking this approach. People wouldn't need all those appliances anymore. Eating "traditional" food would be mostly an eating out option for most people, which is better than having decentralized restaurants in everyone's house.
Do I prefer that? No, but it will have to be part of the solution. We need to start centralizing everything relating to food production to reduce energy and land waste and better contain the environmental impact.
Master Of Illusion
Member
Even if it causes a catastrophic extinction event, the closer towards a 100% reduction of bugs the better.
AbsolutBro
Member
Is there is an argument to be made that as aerodynamics of vehicles increased over old boxy vehicles, less bugs are splattered over your windshield because they are actually surviving encounters with your vehicles instead of being splattered across them?
Because, anecdotally the same as this windscreen test, there are still ludicrous amounts of insects where I am. More, now that those stupid Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs (aka Asian Stink Bugs) are all over the east cost of the U.S. with almost no predators.
AbsolutBro
Member
Vertical indoor farming, depending on the particular crop in question, still requires pollinators though. More people keeping apiaries, for instance, instead of NIMBY suburb bullshit would be a huge boon for both bees (one of the most important insect species) and we humans that depend on them.
Some plants just don't pollinate on their own. Many tomato varieties are particularly guilty of this.
Uhm, last time an extinction event actually caused a significant reduction of insects it was also pretty much game over for most vertebrates too and that was before the evolution of polinating insects.
jackissocool
Member
the apocalypse is great, I love it
pigeon interrupted
Member
Unsurprising. Many of us act like tourists here. There is no humility in many lives and it will cost us in the end.
I remember there being tons of insect in Sweden when I was a kid, nowadays I rarely see anything. Im lucky if I see a spider or two, maybe a few flies and such
We pollen now
Imperial Bishop
Banned
Fuck mosquitoes and wasps. I gladly embrace the ecological Armageddon.
Chezzymann
Member
As someone who got 10 mosquito bites just from sitting on my front porch for 5 minutes, things aren't much different here in houston
IISANDERII
Member
I guess Ill wait and see if we do want to have kids...
There were way too many in vanilla earth TBH.
I know, who would ever want to raise a child in a world with less insects.
I know, who would ever want to raise a child in a world with less insects.
Earthbound64
Banned
We still gonna' get swarms of locusts though?
RastaMentality
Banned
i bet roaches still doing just fine tho
