Meanwhile, 3 days ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/second-man...
must the environmentalist arm themselves?
In Mexico? A lot of them do.
Just 29k Western Monarch butterflies are left in California
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Re: Just 29k Western Monarch butterflies are left in California
#82I used to mock organic food and it's proponents, there's absolutely no nutritional benefits, but watching the sixth major extinction[0] on Earth unfold, caused by us, it's hard to justify the widespread use of pesticides. We have a responsibility as the sentient beings here to protect all these things, they nourish us, they keep ecosystems and everything we need to survive in balance, small they may be, yet hold so m…
Pesticides and herbicides are still used on organic foods. The difference is in the type of chemicals and when/how applied.
Oh of course, though would say insects are far more prepared evolutionary-wise to deal with those products rather than Monsantos new monthly bioweapon straight out of the lab.