Where have all the insects gone?

Re:Where have all the insects gone? by kesselvon on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:32PM (#29003353)

The problem is that we life under a system that demands endless growth on a finite plane.

It's pretty clear that the human population has grown beyond the ability of the planet to sustain a progression towards universal industrialization. Humans have nowhere else to live and we're eroding what underpins our ability to survive.

We more than tripled the human population in the last 100 years. In my own lifetime, the human population has grown by 42%. It's insanity to believe we can continue this without serious consequences.

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Re:Where have all the insects gone? by stacks_on_stack on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:54PM (#29003720)

I've read studies that show human population peaking around 2100 and slowly lessening until it finds a happy medium. This is due to increased access to birth control in developing nations as well as people simply having less children because automation on the farm replaces the need to have several workers (the kids) around to help with the harvest, etc.

Link to article: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-popu...

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Re:Where have all the insects gone? by kesselvon on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:39AM (#29026635)

That means 70 years of population growth and then a plateau on consumption levels that are still insane.

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