While I support protecting insects and I literally see how their amounts decreased since I've been a child, I wished people would stop the alarmist "food supply in danger" headline. It's not, at least not because of the insects. Most of our food supply is not dependent on wild insects, instead people usually pay for cultivated bees to pollinate their plants. Business is too serious to rely on circumstance.
The real problem is that loads of the wild plant life depends on wild insects, and we do not want to lose that.
Don't get me wrong. Neither I deny climate change, nor do I say we should destroy nature as much as we do.
But we need to start talking the truth instead of invented talking points, or people won't take science serious anymore... even more than they already ignore it.
Interactions between species are scarcely understood in general, if they are known at all. It's only very recently that the existence of mycelial networks was discovered. It's only very recently that the importance of micro biome and it's role in health is starting to be recognized. It's only in hindsight that impact of the near extinction of vultures in India on human health was understood.
History has shown industrialized humans to be dangerously ignorant of environmental systems, and almost every action we take with regard to these systems is destructive. Every extinction is irreversible. Things are so wildly out of equilibrium now that it's no longer possible to return to the equilibria from our past.
Ecological collapse isnt some mild inconvenience that makes milk more expensive. Once it has happened, ecological collapse cannot and will not be undone by the seriousness of "business." This type of thinking embodies exactly the kind of arrogant hubris that led us into this situation. The negative feedback loops that have kept earth habitable for us so far aren't laws of nature, and no-one knows how far they can be bent before breaking, or how they even work.
The real problem is that loads of the wild plant life depends on wild insects, and we do not want to lose that.
Don't get me wrong. Neither I deny climate change, nor do I say we should destroy nature as much as we do.
But we need to start talking the truth instead of invented talking points, or people won't take science serious anymore... even more than they already ignore it.