While we’re distracted by the climate hoax . . .
THE REAL UNDERLYING PROBLEM THAT THREATENS OUR SURVIVAL IS OUR WILLINGNESS TO TOLERATE THE INEPTITUDE AND CROOKEDNESS OF OUR RULING CLASSES.
SOURCE: UK RELOADED
POSTED BY STEVE COOK
Intro by Steve Cook
We are featuring the following article not to present yet another man-made calamity for you to worry about but to illustrate how the fixation of attention on the climate emergency hoax distracts from survival problems that are in actual need of some prompt address and action.
Not panic, not hysteria, not the covert effort to bankrupt farmers or wreck economies pursuant to some hidden globalist agenda but some snap-and-pop intention to address, correctly identify, analyse and apply reason and common sense to a pressing survival problem.
This will require our “leaders” to grow two things:
(a) a backbone
(b) a brain
And if they cannot or will not do this so as to address REAL emergencies and knock off the hysteria over fake ones so as to achieve long-term wellbeing for the citizenry then We, The People, will have to find, appoint and instruct people who will.
When you get right down to it, the REAL underlying problem that threatens our survival is our willingness to tolerate the ineptitude and crookedness of our ruling classes.
Why the Global “Insect Apocalypse” is Concerning & What You Can Do About It
SOURCE: FOOD REVOLUTION NETWORK
Ocean Robbins · Published August 10, 2022 · 13 min read
SUMMARY
Over the past couple of decades, insect populations around the globe have plummeted. While that might sound lovely if you’re thinking about mosquitoes and no-see-ums, it’s actually putting us on a collision course with an environmental catastrophe. Without pollinating insects, our food supply is at risk. And without insects in general, the entire web of terrestrial life would likely collapse. So what’s causing the insect die-off, and what can we do to reverse it?
In 1961, mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz was simulating weather patterns in his lab at MIT when he discovered something strange. To save the time and trouble of rebooting his clunky LGP-30 computer, he had just rerun a portion of the model, using the exact same data as the original run. But this time the computer spit out a completely different set of results.
Lorenz was dumbfounded. Mathematics was an exact discipline; how could this happen? Upon close examination, he found one difference between the original inputs and the new ones — he had rounded some numbers from 6 decimal places down to 3. That is, if the input originally was 56.948321, he rounded it to 56.948.
It turned out that a tiny difference at the start of a process could have gigantic and completely unpredictable consequences down the road. Lorenz expressed this insight as a question at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” And that’s how the idea of the “butterfly effect” came to be: that tiny initial changes can have huge and unknown consequences. But that’s not where the astounding impact of bugs ends…
Who Cares About Insects?
When we think of the vast array of life on Earth, we generally picture majestic and/or adorable creatures — elephants, blue whales, redwoods, and cute puppies. Most of us don’t give insects a second thought unless they’re biting, stinging, or otherwise annoying us. Or, in the case of butterflies and fireflies, dazzling us with their beauty.
We, humans, favor other mammals in our ecology and conservation efforts, and largely overlook the invertebrates. While “Save the Whales” campaigns have garnered publicity and funding, there’s not a lot of excitement to “Save the Gerlach’s cockroach,” despite the fact that insects comprise over 94% of all known animal species.
It’s not just activist campaigns and nature documentaries that tend to ignore insects. That bias is part of public policy. The US Endangered Species Act, for example, treats vertebrates more generously than invertebrates.
But insects have a major impact on the world (and not just because they’re the most varied animal group on Earth). What’s crucial to understand is that they create the biological foundation for a vast array of terrestrial ecosystems. It’s not an exaggeration to say that without insects, the entire web of life would become so frayed that all life on Earth could be placed in jeopardy.
The sadness is that “without them” is where we’re heading — unless we take urgent and serious action to protect insects. Many entomologists (scientists who study insects) warn that we may be facing an “insect apocalypse”: a major decline in insect populations.
So what’s happening to the insects? Why are they so important? And is there anything we can do to prevent their — and our — demise?
In this article, we’ll look at the precipitous decline in insect populations worldwide, examine its causes, why it’s so concerning, and end with some things each of us can do to protect these creatures upon whom all life depends.
The Insect Apocalypse
When I was a kid, a two-hour drive in the country would produce so much insect carnage that sometimes you needed to keep the wipers going just to see oncoming traffic. But in the early 2000s, folks started noticing that their car’s windshields (or windscreens, if you grew up in Canada or the UK) were strangely devoid of insect splatter after long road trips.
And it wasn’t just their nostalgic imaginations playing tricks on them. A research study conducted by amateur German entomologists found that insect populations had declined by 75% between 1989 and 2017. The researchers set up insect traps and measured the weight of the flying bugs they collected. Over the years, the numbers plummeted to the point where by 2017, the traps were collecting just one-quarter of the insects that they had in 1989.
The “windshield effect” has also been subjected to scientific scrutiny. In 2003, researchers in England began equipping the front of participating cars with “splatometers,” a type of PVC film marked with a grid to measure insect splatting. Over the next 15 years, the number of insects decreased by 50%. Researchers in Denmark ran similar tests from 1997 to 2017 and documented an 80% reduction in one survey and a staggering 97% decrease in a second one.
These findings are frightening, and they may be just the tip of the iceberg. While fewer than 1% of described invertebrate species have been assessed for threats by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), approximately 40% of all those that have been assessed are considered threatened species.
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