Story Plummeting insect numbers threaten collapse of nature

[Johnnythefox]

Sounds like the End is nigh.

Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'
Exclusive: Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ng-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature

 

[Mrs.O'Leary'sCow]

Sounds to me like voluntary (and rapid) population reduction is the only viable solution. I'm guessing such a suggestion would be shrugged off as alarmist fear-mongering by most people. Oh well, sixth mass extinction event here we come. I'm glad I have no descendants.

 

[stellabelle]

Especially with the use of pesticides.
I'm so ready for the apocalypse. we've already destroyed our planet.

 

[CFLoser]

I hate the planet

 

[stellabelle]

I hate the planet

I don't hate the planet, just the feral animals on it that are commonly referred to as homosapiens

 

[Johnnythefox]

It's not taken that long for us to royally fuck up our existence, since day one of the industrial revolution the clock has been counting down.

 

[stellabelle]

It's not taken that long for us to royally fuck up our existence, since day one of the industrial revolution the clock has been counting down.

No kidding, I hope that the earth takes itself back

 

[Wolfjob_dayjob]

Seriously: not the bees...

 

[Wolfjob_dayjob]

Sounds to me like voluntary (and rapid) population reduction is the only viable solution. I'm guessing such a suggestion would be shrugged off as alarmist fear-mongering by most people. Oh well, sixth mass extinction event here we come. I'm glad I have no descendants.

Me too, but I'm a whimpering baby myself. I have a recurring waking/sleeping nightmare I'm in a room that's flooding. Die now? Or bob along the ceiling in the last moments and due anyway. Eh I ride the bus and don't have kids and do lots of hippie things-but inevitably and out of my hands....goddamn it.

 

[CJM]

I haven't seen many monarch butterflies around much anymore. Something is definitely up.

 

[Johnnythefox]

I hate the planet

It's not the place, it's the people.

 

[Johnnythefox]

It's not just the insects either.
More than a quarter of UK birds face extinction risk or steep decline.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...s-face-extinction-risk-or-steep-decline-study

 

[Johnnythefox]

Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ped-out-animals-since-1970-major-report-finds

 

[JustLosingMyself]

Ah well... we're all dead in 10 years anyway...

 

[LiveSlowDieFast]

I don't mind going out sooner myself, but I feel so bad for so many people I know. I don't want them to suffer through the collapse...

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

I feel bad for our collective children, what a mess we've left them with. I don't trust humanity either. We seem to wreck anything that suits us in order to obtain shortsighted benefits. I also see population control/eugenics on the cards. It didn't have to be this way. Some part of me believes there is more than enough to go around and take care of everything and everybody.

 

[stellabelle]

I haven't seen many monarch butterflies around much anymore. Something is definitely up.

I noticed this in recent years too. It's sad.


@Johnnythefox I can guarantee you that the mosquito population here is alive and well....so are the flies

 

[LiveSlowDieFast]

Some part of me believes there is more than enough to go around and take care of everything and everybody.

There is, but it's wrongly distributed. Any kind of eugenics or depopulation will just hit the most vulnerable.

 

[FTL.Wanderer]

From article,

"Ehrlich praised the review, saying: 'It is extraordinary to have gone through all those studies and analysed them as well as they have.' He said the particularly large declines in aquatic insects were striking. 'But they don't mention that it is human overpopulation and overconsumption that is driving all the things [eradicating insects], including climate change,' he said."