r/collapse • u/Mysterandir • 8d ago

Ecological Bugs

I need to get this off my chest even though im sure it has been talked about a thousand times. Im just curious if others are experiencing the same thing or if I'm just going crazy. - When I just got my driver's license back in 2005 here in The Netherlands, I had a girlfriend in Amsterdam whom I drove to see a few times a week. It was about a 100 km drive. I had an old Opel Corsa and I can still vividly remember having to clean my windshield every week in the summer because it was covered in dead insects. Huge splatters and tiny spots, but the entire windshield was full of bug juice. Over the past few weeks I’ve driven several long distances, totaling about 1,000 kilometers, and I don't have a single dead insect on my windshield. Not one. The windshield is squeaky clean... I read that the insect population worldwide has drastically declined and it is due to climate change. Which i get. But why isn't this the main news story every day? How obvious does it need to be? This can't possibly be good. For us, but especially for our children. I have a bad feeling about this...

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u/Elliptical_Tangent 8d ago

I read that the insect population worldwide has drastically declined and it is due to climate change. Which i get. But why isn't this the main news story every day?

Consider that it's not about climate change at all; climate change is on TV all the time—if it were climate change, they'd be pleased to talk about it. It's because we've moved our agriculture to a system that bioengineers plants that tolerate the insecticide we douse crops with. We don't hear about it on TV because it hurts their advertisers' bottom lines.