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Re:75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass ... by crispinb on Thursday October 19, 2017 @06:38PM (#15512134)
Good on you. If it's worth doing anything at all, that 'anything' has to be on a political level. Consumer action is a dead duck, albeit a convenient one for the green-hued sector of corporatocracy. Green parties have wasted enough of our time with it.

It's a shame so much political activism is protest rather than construction. That's probably inevitable given the configuration of political power and the sheer speed of the destruction (locally for example I certainly don't want the Adani lunacy to go ahead). And protest can develop community which can be a usefully subversive form of construction. But there's something slightly unsatisfying there, and it doesn't suit everyone's predispositions.

Re:75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass ... by abraae on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:17PM (#15513117)
I had to google Adani. That is some farking madness.
Re:75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass ... by crispinb on Friday October 20, 2017 @02:56AM (#15513976)
You're not kidding. The silver lining is that if it goes ahead (there's much doubt over the project being funded), it is quite likely to prompt a surge in activism greater than anything Australia has seen in decades. It is not a popular project.