I don't want to doxx myself but ecology is kind of my thing so I want to chime in and say that if we abolish capitalism or at least castrate it then we can 100% fix this. Don't let them make you feel hopeless. We do need to do something, however, and the longer the wait the harder it will be to fix
Is there some hope in the fact that insects have short reproductive cycles and produce many young, so if the factor that's killing them can be removed, they can rebound pretty quickly?
The thing about insect numbers is that they can handle a lot of shit, but they're not just dealing with a single threat. It's not just pesticides that's killing them, it's pesticides, habitat loss, climate change and more. These problems compound like weight being added to a table until the table breaks. We can save the table, but if we wait too long to remove some weight, it might break and be hard as fuck to repair.
If we can just remove a couple of stressors, say, pesticides and habitat loss, their ability to handle the other stressors like climate change increases. The more bullshit we remove, the faster they'll bounce back.
I don't want to doxx myself but ecology is kind of my thing so I want to chime in and say that if we abolish capitalism or at least castrate it then we can 100% fix this. Don't let them make you feel hopeless. We do need to do something, however, and the longer the wait the harder it will be to fix
Is there some hope in the fact that insects have short reproductive cycles and produce many young, so if the factor that's killing them can be removed, they can rebound pretty quickly?
For the most part, yes.
The thing about insect numbers is that they can handle a lot of shit, but they're not just dealing with a single threat. It's not just pesticides that's killing them, it's pesticides, habitat loss, climate change and more. These problems compound like weight being added to a table until the table breaks. We can save the table, but if we wait too long to remove some weight, it might break and be hard as fuck to repair.
If we can just remove a couple of stressors, say, pesticides and habitat loss, their ability to handle the other stressors like climate change increases. The more bullshit we remove, the faster they'll bounce back.
More like owlcology probably.
You are probably right though, I won't give up I just honestly do not believe it will happen before it's too late
and even if it does get to be too late, the people responsible should still be [redacted]