Is There an Insect Apocalypse? By James Reed

     As you all know, we are all climate change critics here, even Brian Simpson, who is so scientifically cautious about bloody everything that he normally does not have a position on most things, thus writing the least articles of the team, except Mr Ian Wilson, whom I do not know (Sydney scene). Why, he even rejects IQ, and has a beef about American Renaissance magazine, while I like it. I even have a picture of Jared Taylor on my bar fridge.  Anyway, what about biodiversity destruction, which is now being linked in the climate change narrative. What should be our position on that?
  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10342300/insect-apocalypse-half-species-wiped-out/

“AN insect “apocalypse” is under way that could impact on all life on Earth, a report warns. The heavy use of pesticides has helped wipe out around half of all species of insects since 1970, say ¬worried researchers. Prof Dave Goulson added: “It could be much more. We just don’t know, which is scary. "If we don’t stop the decline of our insects there will be profound consequences for all life on earth — for human wellbeing.” An investigation carried out by ecologists at Sussex University for the Wildlife Trusts found that 40 per cent of the one million known insect species are now nearing extinction. Many birds, bats, reptiles, small mammals and fish would starve without insects to eat. And with 87 per cent of plants needing animal pollination, mostly from insects, human food sources are at risk too. Meanwhile the use of ¬pesticides has doubled over the past 25 years, statistics show. During this time at least 23 ¬species of bees and wasps have disappeared.”

     Well, I don’t know how they work out all this extinction stuff, but from where I stand there are plenty of insects, too many in fact, and most of them are at my place. Thus, we had a hot night last week, and I could not sleep from being attacked by giant bugs, weird green ones, ones with wings that suddenly dropped off, you name it. I found myself scratching for hours, and when I finally got to sleep I had nightmares about giant insects trying to eat me. And in reality, they were.

     So, for these reasons, I don’t care about insects dying off, if they are at all. Sure, it raises a problem of pollination, but soon we will have robot bees to do that and they will not have stings, only recording devices to spy on you, which must be harmless, since, what have we to hide?