Apparently, according to the Gaia worshipers over at TIME magazine, human-caused climate change is threatening to make more bugs go extinct and cause their habitat behaviors to go haywire.
TIME reporter Simmone Shah trotted out the eco-agitprop May 20 on how “climate change means that globally summers on average could get less buggy.” Climate change, cried Shah, could mean globally that “an increasing number of insects could be at risk for extinction” and that other pests like ticks and mosquitoes could “broaden their range of habitat or timing when they emerge for the season.”
Then came the pathetic scareporn: “While you might be hoping to put away the bug spray, experts warn that the [climate] change could have harmful impacts on ecosystems, agriculture, and in some cases, health.” In other words, humanity is responsible for, er, insecticide, as TIME has notoriously blamed humanity as being the cause of the climate change that’s now affecting the bugs society is supposed to be eating!
Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King (1994) are the most shook.
As Climate Depot founder Marc Morano quipped in comments to MRC Business, “Do even loyal readers of these media rags read -- let alone believe this crap!?"
Morano also told MRC Business that TIME’s bug apocalypse story is just the latest in a series of nonsensical eco-doomism being pushed by leftist media this week. “What a week! First CBS News warned 'pregnant women' are in danger to climate change. (What is a woman?!) Shah had that, too.
CBS News also warned climate change will cause more home foreclosures. Now we are being told by TIME mag that bugs will be devastated by climate change.” As Morano summarized, “If you believe the legacy media this week, a post-climate apocalypse will be filled with homeless high risk pregnancy patients living in a 'less buggy' world.”
Save the bugs, cried Shah: “While sometimes annoying, insects are more important than many of us give them credit for, say experts.”
This kind of climate sensationalism is par for the course for the magazine. This is the same trash outlet that infamously tried to sell people on the nutty idea that 2020 was humanity’s “one last chance” to save the planet. In 2021, the magazine even went as far as to exploit the deadly COVID-19 pandemic as being beneficial for the climate cause: “Climate Is Everything: How the pandemic can lead us to a better, greener world.”
