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Old 08-19-2020, 11:40 AM   #1877
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Originally Posted by Cameron Swift View Post
I've been reading over the last few years that insect populations seem to be down quite a lot due to climate change. One of the examples of anecdotal evidence offered (in Britain at least) is that the number of bugs on the windscreen after a road trip is far less. I haven't lived here long enough to know whether that's true in this part of the world but I do seem to recall a lot more splats twenty years ago.
The perversion of agriculture into giant swaths of mono-crops covered religiously in pesticide is likely a bigger issue.

Climate change needs to stop being a catch-all phrase for every man-made plight on the planet.
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