Neonicotinoids - and other insect killers - what future for the planet?

pansyface

When I was a child, I remember the car windscreen being covered in dead insects after a summer day out in the car. 

Jellyfire

It’s the thing that makes me despair above all others. It’s so refreshing to see how many people on here try not to kill ‘pests’, but it’s our attitudes to farming, food production and consumption that we need to change really, and I’m afraid the only way that will change is with unpopular legislation on a national and international level. I can’t see a government willing to take the short term hit on popularity until it’s probably way too late 

punkdoc

Do we really deserve to live on this planet, we certainly don't look after it?

wild edges

With the whole world facing food shortages in the next few years you can bet chemical use will be on the increase. We're backed into the 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' corner now.