https://writersontherange.org/coming-soon-the-apocalypse-maybe/ Syndicated Opinion for the American West Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:12:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://writersontherange.org/coming-soon-the-apocalypse-maybe/#comment-201 Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:12:45 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=4405#comment-201 You forgot the devastating effects of pesticides falling everywhere on earth and working synergistically to cause birth defects and mortality in invertebrates and vertebrates at increasing levels. If all the other animals go extinct, people won’t hang around for long. In some places 80% of the insects that were there are now gone. It won’t take long for the remaining 20% to be gone. Most vertebrate species depend in some way on invertebrate species, especially for food, so no invertebrates equals no vertebrates. It will take only about 20 more years for everything to be gone. There is an easy way to save ourselves, just ban the use of the pesticides that are doing the most harm, like all of the neonicotinoids, glyphosate based herbicides and the deadliest fungicides, like chlorothalonil (Daconil), which studies have shown work together synergistically to kill both vertebrates and invertebrates up to a thousand times faster than any one of those alone. Or keep ignoring this deadly reality and let most life as we know it go extinct – apocalypse, no maybe about it!

]]> https://writersontherange.org/coming-soon-the-apocalypse-maybe/#comment-125 Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:44:24 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=4405#comment-125 […] the link to read the article on the Writers on The Range website (Pepper […]

]]> https://writersontherange.org/coming-soon-the-apocalypse-maybe/#comment-118 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:33:11 +0000 https://writersontherange.org/?p=4405#comment-118 An excellent summation of the apocalypse, maybe. Well done, and inspiring. Thank you.

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