The war on nature analogy makes me think about collateral damage-in war the most powerful actors are always keen to deny, sanitise and minimise such damage. The chemical industries have been able to follow the example of tobacco and asbestos, and deny, obscure, fund research to show minimal effects, and lobby governments to minimise oversight and regulation. I'm old enough to remember how thick the night air was with moths on a night drive say fifty years ago. You sometimes had to stop to clean the windscreen. Has the loss of this "aerial plankton" helped agricultural production? Not a jot!
The war on nature analogy makes me think about collateral damage-in war the most powerful actors are always keen to deny, sanitise and minimise such damage. The chemical industries have been able to follow the example of tobacco and asbestos, and deny, obscure, fund research to show minimal effects, and lobby governments to minimise oversight and regulation. I'm old enough to remember how thick the night air was with moths on a night drive say fifty years ago. You sometimes had to stop to clean the windscreen. Has the loss of this "aerial plankton" helped agricultural production? Not a jot!