#armegedon

 When was the last time an insect flew into your windscreen?

When you next make a cup of tea, I bet the last thing on your mind is how intimately linked it is to the insect world.  Without our insect friends there would be no pollination of tea crops, no rich variety of blends to taste, and the end for our celebrated cream teas.  A world without insects would be a world without tea; most offices would grind to a caffeine-deprived halt, the nation’s productivity would plummet, and our social world would implode.  But this is the least of our concerns.  A world without insects would be so much more worrying…

At any time it is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion individual insects alive.  If you want to picture what this looks like, it’s a lot of zeros 10,000,000,000,000,000,000.  And all the while that vast number is pollinating our crops, enriching and aerating our soils, and decomposing our waste.  So what would happen if all of this actually stopped tomorrow – would we be celebrating the end to all insect-borne diseases, or rushing headlong into ecological Armageddon?

Hello,

I watched a video that, I think, was meant to scare me but instead it confused me. Not it’s message but its lack of solutions. Here’s the video.

But Eric I don’t want to watch the 15minute video

Fair enough. Here’s a quick explanation on what you’ll see. The human world is on the precipice of a revolution the likes we’ve…