A report from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology shows that bird populations across every U.S. habitat are plummeting, with 229 species in urgent need of help.
Memes aside, how many birds were killed during the 4 Pests Campaign? Because that’s what caused all the starvation during the Great Leap Forward when there weren’t birds to eat insects which caused huge swarms of locusts to eat all the crops.
Something similar could happen here in the US, except it will be the collapse of ecosystems due to not enough pollinators, rather than biblical plagues destroying all the grain.
The American species of locust was effectively driven to extinction about 100 years ago due to a combination of aggressive campaigns to exterminate them and their breeding grounds and changes in farming practices and types of crop cultivation.
The concern about bird populations though is that they’re pollinators (just like honeybees). A lot of plants rely on birds for pollination. No birds = no plants = herbivores starve and die = carnivores starve and die = total ecosystem collapse. This would rapidly accelerate climate change and desertification.
3 billion is catastrophic. Jfc
Memes aside, how many birds were killed during the 4 Pests Campaign? Because that’s what caused all the starvation during the Great Leap Forward when there weren’t birds to eat insects which caused huge swarms of locusts to eat all the crops.
Something similar could happen here in the US, except it will be the collapse of ecosystems due to not enough pollinators, rather than biblical plagues destroying all the grain.
I just heard of hundreds of millions of sparrows. Not sure about other species. If things collapse like that in the US…
The American species of locust was effectively driven to extinction about 100 years ago due to a combination of aggressive campaigns to exterminate them and their breeding grounds and changes in farming practices and types of crop cultivation.
It’s extinctions all the way down, baby!
The concern about bird populations though is that they’re pollinators (just like honeybees). A lot of plants rely on birds for pollination. No birds = no plants = herbivores starve and die = carnivores starve and die = total ecosystem collapse. This would rapidly accelerate climate change and desertification.
Corn is wind pollinated tho so the HFCS will keep flowin’