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Re:Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in tox... by scottlocklin on Sunday August 11, 2019 @12:24PM (#20668822)
Well, we're running a giant experiment on this: the EU recently banned them. In fact they've banned several of them and the worst uses of them since 2013.

My bet: bees might do better, but the over all insectopocalypse is due to something else.

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Re:Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in tox... by novaRom on Sunday August 11, 2019 @02:46PM (#20669700)
The biggest issue is that the ecological costs are not reflected in economic transactions in modern economy. We simply cannot estimate them properly, because ecological disaster is a long slowly moving process, not very visible at first, but very significant thereafter.
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Re:Insect 'apocalypse' in U.S. driven by 50x increase in tox... by ribeyes on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:10PM (#20691857)
It's extremely difficult to tease out the ecological impact of the economy because the Earth itself has powerful climate dynamics we don't fully understand.
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