No. The point is the number 1 concern is we're destroying insect ecosystems to anthropoform the world.
Pesticides are a problem, but almost always secondary to wholesale habitat destruction in order to make farmland (mostly to grow feed for cattle in this country) and suburbs. Pesticides are just a tool to make those new "more profitable" landscapes.
Modern commercial farming leaves no room for nature, and suburbans folks seem to think ants and spiders shouldn't exist. Turns out the same things that kill "pests" and "weeds" generally make it tough for the cute things we like.
We're reshaping the world, often in ignorance on how much we actually depend on these ecosystems we are destroying.
In the developed world, total acres of farmland have been shrinking for about a half century. And in North America, suburbs are usually overpopulated with cute things (e.g. deer, squirrels, raccoons), not underpopulated.
The issue IS pesticides. There is broad consensus that this is the case among experts. Harmful pesticide overutilization is a LOT more practical to fix than getting rid of farms and suburbs.
Pesticides are a problem, but almost always secondary to wholesale habitat destruction in order to make farmland (mostly to grow feed for cattle in this country) and suburbs. Pesticides are just a tool to make those new "more profitable" landscapes.
Modern commercial farming leaves no room for nature, and suburbans folks seem to think ants and spiders shouldn't exist. Turns out the same things that kill "pests" and "weeds" generally make it tough for the cute things we like.
We're reshaping the world, often in ignorance on how much we actually depend on these ecosystems we are destroying.