Re:Insect collapse
by jelliclesfarm on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:45PM
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Thank you. St.Carlin always keeps me grounded.
I think you vastly over-estimate our power.
If the oceans die through acidification and pollution, and all of the insects die we will die as well.
Yes, we'll die, but only 99.99% dead. The remaining surviving will have learned the most costly lesson yet of humanity, and will continue on and rebuild. It sucks, but so did the millions of years of animals murdering each other just so that I could type this and you could read it.
> The remaining surviving will have learned the most costly lesson yet of humanity
I wish I could believe this, but I don't. The cycle will repeat as the collapse passes out of living memory. We will have lost civilization by then, the only records that remain will be the trash heaps that we leave behind.
Re:Insect collapse
by radiorental on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:03PM
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I expect us to die.
I think you may have misread the intent of my comment.
We're going away.
Would we be putting a little less pressure on the environment without people like Edward Bernays, possibly. However, I think our collective consciousness can put itself a little at ease. As we enter the 6 mass extinction event, it's a natural cycle and if it wasn't us, some other species would dominate the planet.
It's never a bad time to listen to George Carlin's "saving the planet"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c