Remember:
1. 98% loss of insects in the tropics
2. entomologists say crisis is global
3. abundance/biodiversity declines
4. other arthropods vanishing too
5. habitat destruction to blame
6. also pesticides & climate change
7. humans need insects to survive
This is terrifying.
1. 98% loss of insects in the tropics
2. entomologists say crisis is global
3. abundance/biodiversity declines
4. other arthropods vanishing too
5. habitat destruction to blame
6. also pesticides & climate change
7. humans need insects to survive
This is terrifying.
Insect collapse:
‘We are destroying our life support systems’ ⚠️
🔺A scientist returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished:
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Why don't people know about this?
‘We are destroying our life support systems’ ⚠️
🔺A scientist returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished:
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Why don't people know about this?
It's due to manipulative education/information systems, including state/corporate media like liberal-capitalist @guardian:
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'compelling evidence of a major problem — large-scale declines in the numbers and diversity of insects and other jointed invertebrates known as arthropods'
'insect declines are real, and they’re every bit as severe as had been feared'nature.com/articles/d4158…
'insect declines are real, and they’re every bit as severe as had been feared'nature.com/articles/d4158…
The calamity appears to be across most insect families and happening around the world:
On a scale of 0 to 10, researchers on six continents rated the severity of the insect abundance crisis as either 8/10, 9/10 or 10/10.
news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-gr…
On a scale of 0 to 10, researchers on six continents rated the severity of the insect abundance crisis as either 8/10, 9/10 or 10/10.
news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-gr…
'potent link between intensifying heat waves and stunning declines in the abundance of arthropods'
'at a planetary scale, arthropods are suffering from a wide variety of environmental insults. There’s no single reason why their populations are collapsing.'theconversation.com/climate-change…
'at a planetary scale, arthropods are suffering from a wide variety of environmental insults. There’s no single reason why their populations are collapsing.'theconversation.com/climate-change…
Various factors, from monoculture farming to habitat loss, are to blame.
"The decline is dramatic and depressing and it affects all kinds of insects, including butterflies, wild bees, and hoverflies".
e360.yale.edu/features/insec…
"The decline is dramatic and depressing and it affects all kinds of insects, including butterflies, wild bees, and hoverflies".
e360.yale.edu/features/insec…
Report by leading ecologists:
🔺pesticide use has doubled over 25 years, leading 23 species of bees to go extinct
🔺approx. half of all insects have been lost since 1970 due to the heavy use of pesticides, which could spell disaster for all life on Earth
dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…
🔺pesticide use has doubled over 25 years, leading 23 species of bees to go extinct
🔺approx. half of all insects have been lost since 1970 due to the heavy use of pesticides, which could spell disaster for all life on Earth
dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…
When a scientist who studies the essential role insects play in the health of the ecosystem calls a new study on the dramatic decline of bug populations... “one of the most disturbing articles” he’s ever read, it’s time for the world to pay attention. ⚠️
truthdig.com/articles/insec…
truthdig.com/articles/insec…
"Holy crap".
