{"id":751050,"date":"2018-01-17T12:59:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751050"},"modified":"2018-01-17T12:59:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T12:59:54","slug":"insects-are-the-canaries-in-our-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751050","title":{"rendered":"Insects Are the Canaries In Our Coal Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MATTHEW J. EDLUND:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Insects are a large part of the animal biomass of our planet. They are crucial to our survival in many ways, particularly as pollinators. People are vaguely aware that pollinating bees, necessary to so many of our crops, have been dying or disappearing in large numbers. They are less aware that many other insects are pollinators. Without these pollinators, crops don\u2019t grow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>A recent study out of northwest Germany from the Krefeld Entomological Society found that in the period of 1989 to 2013, the biomass of insects fell 76%. That was in special nature reserves. In an agricultural part of Germany that has been peaceful, stable, and without major economic or political incidents for many years. The insects are at risk. Which means we&#8217;re at risk&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>So for us, the insects are the canaries in our coal mine.\u00a0 Indeed, canaries are probably suffering \u2013 populations of German birds are way down, too.\u00a0 In 1948 there were about 2.5 billion people on Earth. \u00a0Now there are more than three times as many.\u00a0 Our industrial and food footprints are much bigger. Magical thinking won&#8217;t help us this time. It will be much harder to feed us if the insects are gone&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/getting-healthy-now\/201801\/insects-are-the-canaries-in-our-coal-mine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/knSVJ4v4fPs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW J. EDLUND: &#8216;Insects are a large part of the animal biomass of our planet. They are crucial to our survival in many ways, particularly as pollinators. People are vaguely aware that pollinating bees, necessary to so many of our crops, have been dying or disappearing in large numbers. They are less aware that many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17,19,25],"tags":[27,30,31],"class_list":["post-751050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-health","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751052,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751050\/revisions\/751052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}