Where have all the insects gone?

Re:Where have all the insects gone? by goatlover on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:48PM (#29008707)

There's a Radiolab episode about a subspecies of butterfly that only lives on and around this one US military base, and the 20 years of effort one ecologist spent trying to save the species. The ecologist admits that nothing else depends on that butterfly for existence, but it's still worth saving because of a moral obligation we have for making it endangered.

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLndueWMub3J...

I think we're going to have to make tradeoffs, and spending 20 years of resources on saving a small insect in one area probably isn't worth it.

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Re:Where have all the insects gone? by mistrial9 on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:41AM (#29009615)

so this story is amplified, so that those predisposed to this outlook have something to carry around..

> spending 20 years of resources

this overly-simple, too simple, example of one person and "the military" is not at all representative of say, the Bison and praries, or frogs and freshwater. And who are the most prolific polluters in the Federal Government, and who is famous for "20 years of resources wasted for no result" .. ?

Its just as abrasive to hear this pre-baked conclusion, as for others to hear the actual truth of say, entire regions of coral going extinct.

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