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el_hoovy on scored.co
5 hours ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
many big cities straight up spray tons and tons of insecticides into streets specifically to kill off all bugs. i'm not saying "oh it's a side effect of cleaning one street for a parade one time" or "they spray the edges of buildings" i mean they genuinely load tanks of the stuff into trucks, planes, or drones and go around aerosolizing it onto every street.
even that pales in comparison to companies like Monsanto doing that at post-industrial scales on entire thousand acre fields at a time. no wonder there's fewer bugs.
4 hours ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
I can't imagine killing off all these bugs is a good thing. Probably worse long-term consequences than we realize. Meanwhile, environmentalists don't discuss this but they'll get mad if you use a gasoline powered vehicle to drive to work or heat your homes with natural gas.
absolutely. you could roll coal three hours a day and teach your kids to do it and you would not even begin to imagine coming close to the same environmental impact as:
1. "ship it around the world" culture guzzling oil in cargo ships by the megaton
2. industrial farming pesticide - they have made hybrids resistant to glyphosate so they can completely choke out fields in the chemical, which basically genocides all other plants in the area AND sticks to their product. most americans have it in their system and Monsanto shrugs and goes "well, you haven't died of it yet"
3. asian smog production and garbage dumping. they have to commercialize clean air as bags sold for you to breathe, and basically every plasticberg in the ocean comes from China, but my recycled straw is the problem?
environmentalists would become the biggest racists and antisemites in the world if they were not all groomed to be pants-on-head retaded.
even that pales in comparison to companies like Monsanto doing that at post-industrial scales on entire thousand acre fields at a time. no wonder there's fewer bugs.
absolutely. you could roll coal three hours a day and teach your kids to do it and you would not even begin to imagine coming close to the same environmental impact as:
1. "ship it around the world" culture guzzling oil in cargo ships by the megaton
2. industrial farming pesticide - they have made hybrids resistant to glyphosate so they can completely choke out fields in the chemical, which basically genocides all other plants in the area AND sticks to their product. most americans have it in their system and Monsanto shrugs and goes "well, you haven't died of it yet"
3. asian smog production and garbage dumping. they have to commercialize clean air as bags sold for you to breathe, and basically every plasticberg in the ocean comes from China, but my recycled straw is the problem?
environmentalists would become the biggest racists and antisemites in the world if they were not all groomed to be pants-on-head retaded.