XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.checkmate
On 10/01/2022 19:25, Nadegda wrote:
Time to trigger the right-wing snowflakes again. Melt, snowflakes, melt!
On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 11:03:32 -0500, Scout wrote:
"kensi" <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:p9dgjq$3nj$1@gioia.aioe.org...
Fucking neonicotinoids ... If nukes don't kill us all, and carbon
emissions don't kill us all, now there's a *third* candidate. Gah!
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/27/insect-decimation-upstages-global-warming/
Kill yourself kensi... do it for the bugs... and take Naddy with you.
If the only counterargument you can come up with is to wish the opposition dead, then you've lost the argument.
kensi 1,000,000 - 0 Scout
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I skimmed through the article. It is pure bs.
The worldwide loss of insects is simply staggering with some reports of 75% up to 90%, happening much faster than the paleoclimate record rate of the past five major extinction events. It is possible that some insect species may already be close to
total extinction!
Such claims that 90% of species are disappearing are incredible! There may be some species which may not be doing well enough but to generalise is ridiculous! See, if that was true for a second there, why do they write *"It is possible that some insect
species may already be close to total extinction"* ? they cannot be sure so they should say "That May Be Possible or May Not Be Possible" that ...
Realistically, there are not enough scientists monitoring all species, specially bugs. Bugs are small animals much hard to find and there are far too many bug species to be really worried one or two species may not survive...
You see, they always say one or other species are in danger, however, their biological families hardly ever are at all!
It’s established that species evolve and then go extinct over thousands and millions of years as part of nature’s course, but the current rate of devastation is simply “off the charts, and downright scary.”
If you look the graph of genera, families and species over the geological history, you will see these classes are exponentially rising over time. The great five big extinction events were followed by speciation events and the rise in the rate of species
generation remained higher onwards from that preceding extinction events. Most of the time species are in stasis with the environment and remain roughly the same over a long and monotonous period of geological time.
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Then they talk about pesticides but did you know we eat naturally produced pesticides from vegetables? Many of them are cancerogenic as by any pharmaceutical molecular book.
There exists a myth that organic fruits and vegetables are healthier because they’re free from harmful pesticides.
Bruce Ames, one of the key founders of the field of toxicology back in the 1970s, wrote a landmark paper in 1990 called Dietary pesticides (99.99% all natural), in which, he showcased some of the many naturally-occurring pesticides we ingest every
day.
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