Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers

[Moral Compass]

4. Not surprising

We spray pesticides everywhere. Just what we do on our lawns is insane. Walk into any Home Depot or Lowe’s. There is a huge aisle stacked with products that contain both herbicides and pesticides.

That fertilizer with pre-emergent in it? Have you ever stopped to think what else it kills? Lizards? Nematodes? Mayflies? What else?

We spray chemicals everywhere and really we have little understanding of the systemic effects. We fight the good fight against mosquitoes. But what if we kill them all? What eats mosquitoes? Surely they will then starve.

We seem to think that somehow we stand apart from the ecosystem. But we are part of it and depend on it to survive.

At some point we will kill too many of the little creatures and then creatures that eat them will starve and then this will ripple up through the system until the apex predator can no longer survive.

And that apex predator is us. As Pogo once said, “I has met the enemy and he is us.”