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Not enough people are talking about declining insect populations
true. had a talk from some professor at work on the subject and it is truly alarming; the pace at which numbers are falling - especially in the past 10-20 years is insane. yet people still get fucking astroturf installed in their gardens
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Not enough people are talking about declining insect populations. Did you know the sum biomass of ants on earth is larger than the sum biomass of humans? Now imagine flies, moths, mozzies, bees, all these amazing weird creatures that aren’t cute enough to hold our attention, but are critical to earths ecosystems and our food supply (pollination). And their numbers are dwindling.
I suspect it’s the atmosphere slowly decreasing in life-sustaining qualities... but it’s probably not, with all the other stuff we’re letting corporations do to the planet.