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Extinction, generally.

I'd rather have combat insects we can turn into pollinators once the ecosystem collapses than have nothing at all.

I think I'd rather just have nothing at all.

If you travel and see how people live in very large cities, especially in Asian countries, you'll find that interacting with any sort of nature is already optional for many people. These people won't notice. The indiscriminate pesticides will continue to flow, killing the natural bee/insect populations, with a slow transition to artificial pollination being an efficiency quirk of modern farming.

My mother used to work in social care for underprivileged city kids and she told me a story once where they took the kids to a farm. They were astonished that milk came from a cow.

I basically have to fly to the Canary Islands to see starlight.

One step closer to the Matrix

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