Earth's Ecosystems are on a collusion course with extinction...

[posty 2,809]

Another "fear mongering" post...

 

https://www.infowars.com/earths-ecosystems-are-on-a-collision-course-with-extinction-insect-populations-have-declined-by-up-to-98-percent-in-some-areas-of-the-world/

 

Scientists are calling it the insect apocalypse, and it has extremely serious implications for the future of our planet.

 

All over the globe, insect populations are plummeting dramatically. And since insects are at the very foundation of the global food chain, that is really bad news for all of us. In fact, one expert described what is happening to the global insect population as hyper-alarming. If we continue down the path that we are currently on, a bleak, apocalyptic future for our planet is all but assured.

 

When scientist Brad Lister recently returned to the Luquillo rainforest in Puerto Rico, he quickly realized that something was very, very wrong. And once his team began taking measurements, they discovered that 98 percent of the insect population on the ground was completely gone

 

We knew that something was amiss in the first couple days, said Brad Lister. We were driving into the forest and at the same time both Andres and I said: Where are all the birds? There was nothing.

 

His return to the Luquillo rainforest in Puerto Rico after 35 years was to reveal an appalling discovery. The insect population that once provided plentiful food for birds throughout the mountainous national park had collapsed. On the ground, 98% had gone. Up in the leafy canopy, 80% had vanished.

 

But if this was just happening in Puerto Rico, it definitely would not be a global crisis.

 

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Unfortunately, similar numbers are coming in from all over the planet

 

Flying insect numbers in Germanys natural reserves have plunged 75% in just 25 years. The virtual disappearance of birds in an Australian eucalyptus forest was blamed on a lack of insects caused by drought and heat. Lister and his colleague Andrés García also found that insect numbers in a dry forest in Mexico had fallen 80% since the 1980s.

 

We are essentially destroying the very life support systems that allow us to sustain our existence on the planet, along with all the other life on the planet,Lister said. It is just horrifying to watch us decimate the natural world like this.

 

And one study that looked at data from the entire world concluded that there has been a 45 percent drop in the abundance of invertebrates

 

Worldwide, a 2014 summary of global declines in biodiversity and abundance estimated a 45 percent drop in the abundance of invertebrates, most of which are insects. And many individual species and species groups are declining or even being threatened with extinction, from bumblebees in Europe and the United States to fungus weevils in Africa.

 

When I said that we are on a collision course with extinction in the title of this article, I was not kidding around.

 

Without insects, we would have an exceedingly difficult time trying to survive on this planet. I really like how a Scientific American article made this point

 

Insects pollinate a spectrum of plants, including many of those that humans rely on for food. They also are key players in other important jobs including breaking dead things down into the building blocks for new life, controlling weeds and providing raw materials for medicines. And they provide sustenance for a spectrum of other animalsin fact, the Puerto Rico study showed a decline in density of insect-eating frogs, birds and lizards that paralleled the insect nosedive.

 

As the planetary food chain systematically breaks down, we can rely on the artificial food chains that we have created for a while, but once things get bad enough those artificial food chains will not be nearly enough to feed the entire planet.

 

And it isnt just invertebrates that are seeing their populations collapse.

 

Vertebrate populations are collapsing too, and according to one recent report they are down an average of 60 percent since 1970

 

The population of the planets vertebrates has dropped an average of 60 percent since 1970, according to a report by the WWF conservation organization.

 

The most striking decline in vertebrate population was in the tropics in South and Central America, with an 89 percent loss compared to 1970. Freshwater species have also significantly fallen down 83 percent in that period.

 

Vertebrates include all mammals, fish, birds, amphibians and reptiles.

 

Needless to say, a 60 percent decline in less than 50 years is absolutely horrific, and essentially what we are facing is a slow-motion global cataclysm.

 

Meanwhile, we are running out of easily recoverable oil, there are already severe shortages of fresh water all over the globe, and at this point we can barely grow enough food to feed everyone in the world.

 

We are literally teetering on the precipice of disaster, and yet most people dont realize what is happening.

 

The clock is ticking, and time is running out for the late, great planet Earth. We are literally destroying the globe, and we lack the willpower to do anything to stop our destructive behavior.

 

And soon 5G cellphone networks will be rolling out all over the world, and that will greatly increase the amount of radiation that we are constantly bombarding our natural environment with. But we must have better cellphone service, and so we are literally willing to sacrifice the future of our planet in order to get it.

 

I could go on and on, but I think that you get the point.

 

A massive global environmental collapse is already well underway, and it is only going to accelerate in the years ahead as humanity races toward a date with destiny.

[supermike80 2,081]

I'm 51...>how much time does this leave Earth? That's all I wanna know

[Drizzay 744]

And soon 5G cellphone networks will be rolling out all over the world, and that will greatly increase the amount of radiation that we are constantly bombarding our natural environment with. But we must have better cellphone service, and so we are literally willing to sacrifice the future of our planet in order to get it.

 

[sderk 1,040]

Why do so many people spend their lives studying things that either won't happen, or won't be adapted to by the next generation of humans? It's incredible how high they are on themselves thinking it's up to them to save the future of human existence.

[Baker Boy 1,710]

I read that book

 

Zoo by James Patterson

 

Zoo is a science fiction thriller novel by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge published in September 2012 and appeared on the New York Times best seller list.

[cyclone24 1,935]

Cool.

 

Hook em.

[TimmySmith 2,783]

We are not running out of easily recoverable oil. Dont know about the rest.

[RLLD 4,275]

Can we get by without mosquitos at least ?

[lickin_starfish 2,003]

Where do I send my money to prevent this from happening?

[RLLD 4,275]

Where do I send my money to prevent this from happening?

 

RLLD@gmail.com

[nobody 2,881]

Well if it's a collusion course all we have to do is veto it

[BiPolarBear 495]

When I was a kid in Texas, there were huge swarms of flying insects around all the front porch lights at night. Literally hundreds of insects around each light, that were easy to see, as you drove down the street. Now that I am back in Cowtown, you might see one or two insects at a time. I feel sorry for the geckos out around my light, waiting for a single bug to show up.

[sderk 1,040]

Well if it's a collusion course all we have to do is veto it

Probably just hanging around this forum too much.

[Cdub100 3,995]

How can we stop this? Wait let me guess send money?

[wiffleball 4,797]

Damn it, I wish they'd make up their mind. Back in my day, they told me incest was bad.

[Frozenbeernuts 2,331]

Damn it, I wish they'd make up their mind. Back in my day, they told me incest was bad.

Incest was fine in the Adam and Even days.

[frank 2,339]

[peenie 1,958]

When I was younger and visiting my grandmother in Los Angeles, I would often dread the rain. Why? Because I wouldn't be able to avoid stepping on all the snails that would crack and smoosh under my feet. I would hate killing them but they were unavoidable, everywhere when it rained.

When I lived there as an adult I saw slugs not many snails.

[wiffleball 4,797]

I'm torn. Because it seems like they trade off every couple of months. Either they focus on species dying off. Or they come back and report that they just found 42 new species of God knows what.

 

No kidding, they named a new species of slug worm or something after Ruth bader Ginsburg. I'm not even making that up.

 

So it's a little hard to reconcile. The same earth that is so toxic it's killing off species is the same Earth that's so verdant it's creating new ones?

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

Collision course leading to extinction; gillette's new mangina campaign?

[Bishop82 61]

Collision course leading to extinction; gillette's new mangina campaign?

Ban men?

[Baker Boy 1,710]

Most popular coffee could be at risk because of climate change, study finds

 

Coffee drinkers may be sipping on tea soon after a new study revealed that 60 percent of coffee species could be facing extinction because of climate change.

 

The new findings published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday showed how some of the most popular commercial coffees, including Arabica and Robusta, could soon be gone because of increasing droughts and the spread of fungal pathogens because of rising global temperatures, USA Today reported.

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/most-popular-coffee-could-be-at-risk-due-to-climate-change-study-finds

[Filthy Fernadez 2,696]

Ban men?

The Dems have unless you count trannies.

[TimmySmith 2,783]

How can we stop this? Wait let me guess send money?

Get Sarah McLachlan on the phone, we are going to need that song.

[MTSkiBum 1,626]

Most journalists are awful and do not understand science, instead they go for click bait.

[LOD01 199]

We are all good to go but if you are born today, there's good chance you'll get in some Mad Max before you die.