Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'

[Blue Hefner]

Try Scotland north of Inverness, Dartmoor, the Yorkshire moors, and most of the Lake District.
You don’t have to go far.
Now extrapolate that to every other country.

I'd suggest that doesn't really matter. Whilst there are areas of the world that has been untouched there are obviously area that have been decimated, which is why 40% of insects species are in decline and not 100%

I am pretty sure that scientists during their 13 years of research considered the places you list but still arrived at their conclusions. The decline of bees has been widely reported over the past few years, using your method we could extrapolate that out and it will reflect the same on all insects

 

[bluethrunthru]

can't they just gas all the badgers to save them? Thats the usual response isn't it?

 

[pee dubya]

Try Scotland north of Inverness, Dartmoor, the Yorkshire moors, and most of the Lake District.
You don’t have to go far.
Now extrapolate that to every other country.

Come in, the vast majority of UK 'wilderness' is completely artificial and manufactured environment with a shockingly low level of biodiversity.

In the Scottish Highlands there's only tiny pockets of wilderness resembling anything like it's natural state. When you find them it's immediately noticible how the noise level increases with birdsong, you start to find butterfly's, beatles etc. Such a shame there's hardly any left. The rest is virtually barren wasteland populated by artificially controlled herds of deer, introduced populations of birds for shooting, ticks, midges and if you're lucky the occasional raptor that hasn't been poisoned yet.

Spectacular yes, wilderness no.

 

[Scottyboi]

It’ll take more than a world war, mate - unless that was a nuclear war - in which case it’s not just humans that will be culled.

I personally think India/China will have a famine/plague in the next 50 years.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Try Scotland north of Inverness, Dartmoor, the Yorkshire moors, and most of the Lake District.
You don’t have to go far.
Now extrapolate that to every other country.

Isn't most of that farmland? The type of farmland that uses insecticides that are partly responsible for declining numbers in the first place?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I personally think India/China will have a famine/plague in the next 50 years.

More like to be India, I guess.

 

[aguero93:20]

I personally think India/China will have a famine/plague in the next 50 years.

More like to be India, I guess.

Famine wise India is one of the most food secure countries in the world, left to it's own devices, more likely to be China. Although on the food security front Europe is quite poor on the whole, along with a lot of Asia, so it might be a lot closer to home than people would think.

 

[sir baconface]

So 100 billion flies were wrong.

Eating shit is NOT a viable survival tactic.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Famine wise India is one of the most food secure countries in the world, left to it's own devices, more likely to be China. Although on the food security front Europe is quite poor on the whole, along with a lot of Asia, so it might be a lot closer to home than people would think.

Happy to defer to your better knowledge, mate.

I agree that Europe is vulnerable for that reason - and much more.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Mods, consolidate with the Cricket thread.