Insect collapse
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Insect collapse
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#2Our world is dying.
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#3Our world is dying.
The world isn't, but the ecosystem that allows us to be alive appears to be.
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#5I find these articles terrifying, and yet unreal. Like it's not really happening. I guess this is what denial feels like.
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#6And here I was recently musing to myself that if something embedded into our societal imagination, like the giraffe, went nearly extinct due to climate change, that would wake people up before it's too late.
Little did I know that's already essentially happened here according to this article, and the powers that be neither seem to be aware nor care.
And because I was curious: Giraffes are now on the endangered species list as of about two months ago [1]. Go figure. When do we do something?
[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/11/14/giraffes-risk...
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#8And here I was recently musing to myself that if something embedded into our societal imagination, like the giraffe, went nearly extinct due to climate change, that would wake people up before it's too late. Little did I know that's already essentially happened here according to this article, and the powers that be neither seem to be aware nor care. And because I was curious: Giraffes are now on the endangered specie…
I read a very in-depth write-up on your last question couple weeks ago. Have tried to post it on HN a few times with no luck. Won't spoil the "when" answer for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753499
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#9And here I was recently musing to myself that if something embedded into our societal imagination, like the giraffe, went nearly extinct due to climate change, that would wake people up before it's too late. Little did I know that's already essentially happened here according to this article, and the powers that be neither seem to be aware nor care. And because I was curious: Giraffes are now on the endangered specie…
We don't do anything because people read too much pop-sci, pretending that we can just store the DNA.
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#10Predator Prey Cycle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYq2078_xqc
It seems likely there are at least some insects that can adapt to the slightly higher temperatures in the rain forest. If now their predators (birds) have gone down, these insects can multiply, becoming a food source for birds, whose population can then recover.
I love insects like the next guy, but we need to stop believing everything besides completely static environments are a catastrophe.