What a fucking surprise, an entire thread on /sci/ where everyone insists a complicated circumstance is happening because of one singular thing.
It's a lot of things. Pesticide use is at least ten times what it should be, the weather is changing which affects animal behavior, insects are evolving to avoid fast traffic areas, and there's at least some memory bias with how many bugs you hit on the windshield as a kid.
The biggest things we need to address here are the pesticide use (Seriously, it's bad) and the climate change, but the governments of the world keep waiting for carbon capture to get a little bit better instead of just beginning the movement on it, which should have happened ten years ago.
If we spent the amount of cash we spent on pandemic relief and vaccines to mitigate the ecological and climate collapse, the harm could be dramatically reduced. Things just aren't bad enough right now to the point where politicians feel pressured. You aren't seeing overrun hospitals, you aren't seeing morgues fill up, you aren't seeing businesses shuttered, you aren't seeing that immediate sense of urgency and panic that drives politicians to make painful cash burning decisions.
The circumstances we're discussing are beatable, and the technology that needs to exist for it is in its infancy but could be developed with that urgency we're discussing, which we saw with the mRNA vaccines- Something a lot of people weren't even thinking about in 2019. The question is whether we can do it preemptively or if we want to see things get bad before we fix them. And we all know what the answer should be, and what's it's going to be.
Only actual scientist on this garbage board OUT, see ya later Chumps.
