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by hevi_jos 2561 days ago
Lots of people care. It is only that big multinationals like Bayer also care: They want to fill the world with pesticides, because it is in their own economic interest.

Those multinationals have concentration of power and influence. The power of the people is way bigger, but it is distributed.

In Europe neonicotinoids were restricted or forbidden. It is a never ending fight.

The war will never end until we manage to create food cheap enough without insects competing for it. This will be hydroponics, electrically creating ATP Adenosine triphosphate or whatever, but until that time comes they will try to exterminate bugs. The already have in a big way.