{"id":43766,"date":"2019-02-13T06:35:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T11:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43766"},"modified":"2019-02-13T06:36:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T11:36:43","slug":"insect-apocalypse-the-global-food-chain-is-experiencing-a-major-extinction-event-and-scientists-dont-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43766","title":{"rendered":"Insect Apocalypse: The Global Food Chain Is Experiencing A Major Extinction Event And Scientists Don\u2019t Know Why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Insect Apocalypse: The Global Food Chain Is Experiencing A Major Extinction Event And Scientists Don\u2019t Know Why<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Scientists are telling us that we have entered \u201cthe sixth major extinction\u201d in the history of our planet.  A brand new survey of 73 scientific reports that was just released has come to the conclusion that the total number of insects on the globe is falling by 2.5 percent per year.  If we stay on this current pace, the survey warns that there might not be \u201cany insects at all\u201d by the year 2119.  And since insects are absolutely critical to the worldwide food chain, that has extremely ominous implications for all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I write a lot about the inevitable collapse of our economic systems, but it could definitely be argued that our environment is already in a very advanced stage of \u201ccollapse\u201d.  According to this new research<\/a>, insects are going extinct at a rate that is \u201ceight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world\u2019s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a \u201ccatastrophic collapse of nature\u2019s ecosystems\u201d, according to the first global scientific review.<\/p>

More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles<\/strong>. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish within a century<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the entire world will come together and will stop destroying the planet and we can reverse this trend before it is too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, you and I both know that this is extremely unlikely to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if it doesn\u2019t happen, the researchers that conducted this scientific review insist that the consequences will be\u00a0\u201ccatastrophic to say the least\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Insect Apocalypse: The Global Food Chain Is Experiencing A Major Extinction Event And Scientists Don\u2019t Know Why Scientists are telling us that we have entered \u201cthe sixth major extinction\u201d in the history of our planet.  A brand new survey of 73 scientific reports that was just released has come to the conclusion that the total […]<\/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":[150,271,287,916,8774,24388,12305,4901,12750,10475,7452,24389],"class_list":["post-43766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-collapse","tag-environment-2","tag-extinction","tag-financial-collapse","tag-global-collapse","tag-global-extinction","tag-insects","tag-michael-snyder","tag-pain","tag-painful","tag-the-economic-collapse-blog","tag-the-global-food-chain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43766","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=43766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43767,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43766\/revisions\/43767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}