The insects are dying out.
Most of us spend more time swatting away or avoiding wasps and moths than we do contemplating their importance to the web of life. But it is no exaggeration to say that the horrifying decline in the number of these creatures – the most widespread on Earth – is a barometer for the whole planet.
The new global scientific review into the perilous condition of our insects reports that more than 40% of insect species are threatened with extinction while the mass of insects is declining by 2.5% a year. This catastrophic decline is a direct cause of the existential threat to other animals, insects being at the bottom of the chain and the primary food source. Since 1970, 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles have been wiped out.
Eat insects to save the planet.
Edible insects have been hailed as a solution to both global food shortages and reducing emissions from animal agriculture, but despite the industry’s best efforts, our response when faced with a cockroach is disgust. Even in London edible insects are seen as nothing more than a gimmick, and there are only a handful of restaurants serving them up.
Damned if I can keep up.
If they are the bottom of the food chain and their predators are being wiped out then they would be a plague not being wiped out themselves anyway.
I find that our reporters are picking up some madmans rantings and reporting it as news.
Or consider that the PNAS report behind this scaremongering
http://www.thegwpf.com/insect-collapse-hyper-alarming-study-was-hype/
And so the Global Warming scam rolls on…
They just want the proles to eat shit while they have steak.
One of the most apt quotes from H.L Mencken suns up the situation – it has been adopted wholesale by the Corbinites and the Sandersians
‘The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary’