{"id":32825,"date":"2018-03-27T06:13:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32825"},"modified":"2018-03-27T06:13:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:13:50","slug":"insect-decimation-upstages-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32825","title":{"rendered":"Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/27\/insect-decimation-upstages-global-warming\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_100814\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100814\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-5.54.14-PM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-5.54.14-PM.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-5.54.14-PM-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-26-at-5.54.14-PM-768x510.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jaime Gonz\u00e1lez | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Everybody\u2019s heard about global warming. It is one of the most advertised existential events of all time. Who isn\u2019t aware? However, there\u2019s a new kid on the block. An alarming loss of insects will likely take down humanity before global warming hits maximum velocity.<\/p>\n<p>For the immediate future, the Paris Accord is riding the wrong horse, as global warming is a long-term project compared to the insect catastrophe happening right now! Where else is found 40% to 90% species devastation?<\/p>\n<p>The worldwide loss of insects is simply staggering with some reports of 75% up to 90%, happening much faster than the paleoclimate record rate of the past five major extinction events. It is possible that some insect species may already be close to total extinction!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s established that species evolve and then go extinct over thousands and millions of years as part of nature\u2019s course, but the current rate of devastation is simply \u201coff the charts, and downright scary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without any doubt, it is difficult to imagine how humanity survives without insects, which are dropping dead in bunches right before our eyes. For proof, how many insect splats do people clean off windshields nowadays? Not many\u2026. How many fireflies do children chase at night? Not many\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Several naturalists and environmental writers believe the massive loss of insects has everything to do with three generations of industrialized farming and the vast tide of poisons pouring over the landscape year-after-year, especially since the end of WWII. Ours is the first-ever pesticide-based agricultural society. Dreadfully, it\u2019s an experiment that is going dead wrong\u2026 all of a sudden!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming Photo by Jaime Gonz\u00e1lez | CC BY 2.0 Everybody\u2019s heard about global warming. It is one of the most advertised existential events of all time. Who isn\u2019t aware? However, there\u2019s a new kid on the block. An alarming loss of insects will likely take down humanity before global warming hits [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[5493,369,12305,2716,19484,2516,12542],"class_list":["post-32825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-counterpunch","tag-global-warming","tag-insects","tag-major-extinction-event","tag-paris-accord","tag-pesticides","tag-robert-hunziker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32825","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=32825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32826,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32825\/revisions\/32826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}