Our ecosystem is getting more and more fucked.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Absolutely disheartening. I'm already sad about the lack of butterflies. We're running headfirst into some nearly irreversible trends here.
Don't forget bats and bees!
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Fucking windmills have got to be stopped!
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Obviously more coal is the only solution. And it definitely has nothing to do with pesticides. Only a lefty hippie communist groomer would think that.
Avoid Pesticides
Look for organic food choices and cut out some of the 1 billion pounds of pesticides used in the U.S. each year.
Organic food isn't necessarily pesticide free, it just uses "organic" pesticides, which aren't necessarily any better.
More than 1 billion pounds of pesticides are applied in the United States each year. The continent’s most widely used insecticides, called neonicotinoids or “neonics,” are lethal to birds and to the insects that birds consume. Common weed killers used around homes, such as 2, 4-D and glyphosate (used in Roundup), can be toxic to wildlife, and glyphosate has been declared a probable human carcinogen
We are past beyond the point where we can make arguments based on "necessarily". We cannot keep applying the same method. Those bird did not vanish for no reason. At least we know organic pesticides better than the endless new synthetic pesticides that take years to analyze after they have done their damage to the environment.
Point went right over your head it seems. Toxins are toxins, regardless if they're organic or synthetic.
I expect much better from this sub than someone throwing more smokescreen at the problem.
The cigarette industry threw millions of dollars into slowing the research, into seeding doubt here and there, because each month of legal inaction from the government was one more full month of business for them. We know it, it's documented. Slowing the regulations is their business now.
The endgame of your "which aren't necessarily any better" is nothing else than pleading inaction because we are only sure at 99% and not 100%. So while you spend your time searching for this last percent I say we go organic.
You continue to ignore my point. I'm not defending synthetic pesticides. So stop the straw manning please, especially when I literally used the tobacco industry studies as an example in another comment chain yesterday.
The Age of Plastics, y'all.
aka The End Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_time
The main loss for birds comes from the loss of their food source, which comes from pesticides and land use of the agricultural sector.
Add global warming to that mix, and we're just pushing multiple species to extinction while hastening our own.
All this so already wealthy people can become more wealthy.
Tell that to all the motherfuckers chirping outside my bedroom at 4am
They're coming to avenge their brethren. Be very afraid.
Most people don't even now what a dark-eyed junco is nowadays, the numbers have dropped dramatically.
God, as someone who loves birds, this is heartbreaking. :(
Imho, this is a "canary in a coal mine" situation. The mass deaths is the beginning of the extinction wave that'll clear off humans too. Whatever life will continue will hopefully be more respectful of our planet.
Very sad to see.
That's a lot of cameras.
That’s cause they got caught in their lie. Birds aren’t real https://birdsarentreal.com/pages/the-history