Precursor to Ecological Armageddon.
(Dan here…Stormy sends a reminder that the world has a real side as well…lifted from an e-mail))
Calling out the precursor to an Ecological Armageddon.
Thought you might like to see this study—also written up in Guardian. Economists are totally irrelevant. Profit and money are their game….and that game is ending within our children’s lifetime.
More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
See also:
Warning of ‘Ecological Armageddon’ after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
There was an article on this in Science a few months back. It’s like Rachel Carson was just off by a phylum. Insects have fewer folks concerned about them than birds, so a lot of the data has been collected by amateurs. That and the windshield index. Even in areas infamous for insects covered windshields, there just seem to be fewer insects. It’s kind of scary.