Environment & Energy

lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts) Tue Jan 15, 2019, 09:25 AM Jan 2019

Insect collapse: 'We are destroying our life support systems'

The Guardian

Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished.
“We knew that something was amiss in the first couple days,” said Brad Lister. “We were driving into the forest and at the same time both Andres and I said: ‘Where are all the birds?’ There was nothing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/15/insect-collapse-we-are-destroying-our-life-support-systems

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Insect collapse: 'We are destroying our life support systems' (Original Post) lordsummerisle Jan 2019 OP

The early signs of collapse...nt 2naSalit Jan 2019 #1

The sixth mass extinction is already underway. democratisphere Jan 2019 #2

#WeAreTheAsteroid alterfurz Jan 2019 #3

Source? Duppers Jan 2019 #5

Also Sprach Zarathustra alterfurz Jan 2019 #10

What people can do. Botany Jan 2019 #4

The insect losses in the article were in an untouched rain forest NickB79 Jan 2019 #6

It is a start. Botany Jan 2019 #7

Thanks for the book tip n/t lordsummerisle Jan 2019 #8

I would also recommend: Botany Jan 2019 #9

2naSalit

(86,822 posts)

1. The early signs of collapse...nt

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 09:27 AM

Jan 2019

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

2. The sixth mass extinction is already underway.

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 09:46 AM

Jan 2019

alterfurz

(2,475 posts)

3. #WeAreTheAsteroid

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 09:57 AM

Jan 2019

The Earth is an organism, and that organism has a skin; that skin has diseases, and one of these diseases is Humankind. -- Nietzsche

Duppers

(28,127 posts)

5. Source?

Reply to alterfurz (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 10:13 AM

Jan 2019

alterfurz

(2,475 posts)

10. Also Sprach Zarathustra

Reply to Duppers (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 16, 2019, 09:47 AM

Jan 2019

Thus Spake Zarathustra / section 40, "Great Events" in the discourse with the fire-dog:

Die Erde, sagte er, hat eine Haut; und diese Haut hat Krankheiten. Eine dieser Krankheiten heisst zum Beispiel: "Mensch." [The earth, said he, hath a skin; and this skin hath diseases. One of these diseases, for example, is called "man."]

Botany

(70,594 posts)

4. What people can do.

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 10:10 AM

Jan 2019

A must read.

NickB79

(19,274 posts)

6. The insect losses in the article were in an untouched rain forest

Reply to Botany (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:26 PM

Jan 2019

If insects are being obliterated there, the most pristine area possible, what can a yard of native plants do, especially when a lot of neighbors still plant lawn and spray pesticides?