{"id":29139,"date":"2017-12-27T09:08:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T14:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29139"},"modified":"2017-12-27T09:08:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T14:08:53","slug":"the-menacing-insect-omen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29139","title":{"rendered":"The Menacing Insect Omen\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Menacing Insect Omen<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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The world is experiencing a massive loss of insects. In turn, this threatens ecosystems with utter total collapse, and, by way of direct association, loss of human civilization. Zap, it\u2019s over! Insectageddon!<\/p>\n

Insect populations around the world are under massive attack and dropping like\u2026 well\u2026 like flies. The negative implications run very deep, indeed, especially for the foundation of ecosystems, and thus for the survival of all life. Ironically, insect death equivalence becomes human extermination as ecosystems crumble. It\u2019s already happening, and the evidence is compelling, in fact, overwhelming. What can be done has no ready answers, although begrudged solutions are out there, like stop pesticides and industrial-scale monoculture crop practices.<\/p>\n

\u201cScientists cite many factors in the fall-off of the world\u2019s insect populations, but chief among them are the ubiquitous use of pesticides, the spread of monoculture crops such as corn and soybeans, urbanization, and habitat destruction. A significant drop in insect populations could have far-reaching consequences for the natural world and for humans.\u201d (Source: Christian Schwagerl, What\u2019s Causing the Sharp Decline in Insects, and Why It Matters, Yale Environment360, July 6, 2016)<\/p>\n

Many, many studies of insect loss are extant; nevertheless, the issue is seldom, if ever, mentioned by mainstream journals or press.
\nTherefore, in toto, society is at risk uninformed of inherent dangers behind anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss. It is unimaginable that this escapes far-flung public focus, as well as a strong universal mandate to fix the problem.<\/p>\n

In contrast to and dissimilar to global warming COPs (Conference of Parties), which have already captured the world\u2019s attention; there are no conferences of parties to fix this most immediate threat of insect loss and ecosystem collapse, which spells the death knell of society, as it stands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Menacing Insect Omen\u00a0 The world is experiencing a massive loss of insects. In turn, this threatens ecosystems with utter total collapse, and, by way of direct association, loss of human civilization. Zap, it\u2019s over! Insectageddon! Insect populations around the world are under massive attack and dropping like\u2026 well\u2026 like flies. The negative implications run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[72,5493,1057,17650,12305,12542],"class_list":["post-29139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-biodiversity","tag-counterpunch","tag-ecosystems","tag-insect-loss","tag-insects","tag-robert-hunziker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29140,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29139\/revisions\/29140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}