The Poison Papers: Hidden history of chemical and pesticide hazards in the U.S

Re:The Poison Papers: Hidden history of chemical and pestici... by ajsnigrutin on Monday February 21, 2022 @08:14PM (#30422952)

I'm more interested what happens, when we kill of the last of the insects by those pesticides, and the effect goes up the food chain. Considering the history and eg. killing of the sparrows (four pests campaign), the results might be a lot worse than adding checmically produced nutrients to our diet.

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Re:The Poison Papers: Hidden history of chemical and pestici... by culi on Monday February 21, 2022 @08:22PM (#30422996)

I don't know if you heard the part about the vast majority of plants being dependent on soil fungi for the majority of their nutrients

Sure commercial crops still make it to fruit because farmers take care to add the necessary fertilizers and plant hormones to keep them going, but rest assured that this is a major driver of plant extinction as well

Plants have the smallest trophic level. Without plants, there's no insects either. There's no way you could care about insect extinction and somehow not care about this issue

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