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Since nothing
spreads faster amongst the perpetually aggrieved classes than new bad
ideas, I'll leave it to you to guess where this is
headed.
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Biologists
at Wageningen University in the Netherlands enlisted the help of 250
drivers for a "splash teller" study. Each motorist had to wipe his or
her car license plate clean then tot up the bug body count at the end
of their drive.
"They are by far the richest species groups in all countries, and
therefore play an essential role in the food chain," biologist Arnold
van Vliet, one of a team working on the project, told Reuters.
"Many birds such as swallows, who hunt for insects, depend on insect
density. If insect numbers are low they inevitably face severe problems
finding food for their young," he said. |
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I'm thinking they can take the salaries of the bioligists to buy food for the birds....problem solved
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the bioligists can spend their days scraping bird crap off windshields.
I think the problem with these biologists is that others will seize upon their data to promote a new control movement. Only when government grant money is introduced will some biologists see advantage in finding the "right results" and become complicit. The climate change model, exactly.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I've lived too long, but I see the next step being a curtailment of our driving rights during peak insect travel times, or a dramatic redesign of the automobile (all forms) to shrink the flat plate area so as to save insect lives.
ReplyDeleteOf course, that would require that the rich pay more taxes to fund the effort, so that's a benefit, too, right?
Sorry. That was me.
ReplyDeleteMichigammeDave
you caught on quickly MichigammeDave
ReplyDeleteBut they are starving all the wasps that clean dead bugs off of parked cars ...
ReplyDeleteBut cars kill birds, too, so it evens out, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteYes. Cars will kill birds. That's the nature of the problem: What is the correct ratio? Do you figure it in tons? Cubic feet? Is there a temperature conversion? How long does it take to study this problem?
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing there's already a government panel, with nephews, sister-in-laws and the neighbor's kid drawing a salary, while they determine how to spend the money they don't have.....yet.
see also: AGENDA 21
ReplyDeleteI've seen birds perched on a truck bumper eating dead bugs off the grill like it was a buffet line. Nature tends to work things out, with or without human interference.
ReplyDeleteI guess their assumption is that all the bugs are concentrated in the path the license plate takes from A to B.
ReplyDeleteOTOH, if we assume uniform bug density over all the landscape, then there are far too many bugs and we better get bigger license plates.
Elect me tsar for a week and I'll fix this kind of stuff, toot sweet.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick
The odds are good that U.S. taxpayers paid for this study.
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