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[-] Turun@feddit.de 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I bet that while we have less general pollution and less dumping trash in the environment kinda things, we have developed much more potent insecticides. And if those insecticides do not degrade within a few weeks they will accumulate in the earth and the water.

Edit: Wikipedia about one type of modern pesticides: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid

[-] bentropy@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, pretty sure your lawn has almost nothing to do with insects vanishing. It's much more likely the insane amounts of highly potent pesticides we put directly into our food chain. Those pesticides obviously aren't classified as pollution so we aren't polluting, we're killing the environment on purpose.

Btw. The development and use of neonicotines corelate quiet nicely with the drop in the insects population.

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