<story><title>Plummeting insect numbers &apos;threaten collapse of nature&apos;</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gdubs</author><text>We have to change how we grow food. Endless monocrops of corn and soy – much of it grown for animals in industrial feedlots – totally void of biodiversity. Without competition, well-adapted bugs can wipe out entire crops. Hence, the ever-escalating war of farmer vs bugs, fields drenched in pesticides.&lt;p&gt;There are alternatives: Agroforestry, silvopasture, permaculture. Diverse agricultural systems that lean on natural processes. It would mean a diet of more plants, less animals. But frankly, meat is far too cheap. None of the externalities are priced in.&lt;p&gt;I stopped eating meat years ago, but still eat fish on occasion. I would rather pay $100 for sushi, than live in a world with no fish.</text></comment>
<story><title>Plummeting insect numbers &apos;threaten collapse of nature&apos;</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>canada_dry</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not hard to imagine tobacco like lawsuits in the next decade or so that may well uncover how the likes of monsanto&amp;#x2F;bayer et al knew and hid that their products were killing too broadly, but that it was too costly to care.</text></comment>