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  • I kinda assume that insect-dying is mostly perpretated by taking all of their land away and drying up the wetlands.

    I.e., hundreds of years ago, the world had 300 Million people on it. Now we have close to 10 billion, up by a factor of 30x.

    That means we consume more food. Even with better soil fertility, we need more land.

    That automatically and necessarily leads to a displacement of other species. Turns out that not only humans need land to live, but so does every other species. If you take that land away from them, they die. Simple as that.

    I assume that it will be very difficult or close to impossible to do anything against large-scale insect dyings as long as humans take up so much space to produce food. Of course, insular areas can be reserved for wildlife to make sure that some native species survive, but it’s only a small patch to conserve the species, not a large-scale spread of insects across the land. At least that’s my view of it. It’s not so much the chemicals that are poisoning our insects (that too, but it’s not the biggest contributor), but simply the fact that we till so much soil every autumn/winter, that it disrupts insects breeding in that soil.