There’s something disturbing about how our society discusses ecological disasters; the plummeting numbers of monarchs is clearly one.

Big agribusiness is the culprit here, but instead we obsess over “climate” which is not a cause on this species crisis. (1/x) https://twitter.com/literaryeric/status/1390266503543627781

The science of their decline is unequivocal (anyone who spent anytime outside over the past three decades notices the monarch absence).

So too is what has killed them - the lack of habitat and the planting of corn across the country.

Big agribusiness gets a total pass. (2/x)

Cheap and abundant corn, much of which has been genetically modified to produce toxic antibacterial pollen to keep away pests, kills butterflies that land on it. (3/x) https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1999/04/toxic-pollen-bt-corn-can-kill-monarch-butterflies

And yet we’d rather talk about fossil fuels, greenhouse gases, hurricanes, and long term warming trends, for which the science and long term impact are much less clear. (4/x)

If you’re not talking about the environmental emergency caused by big agro, chemical and big fishing you’re not a serious person. But these industries have bought off so much of the movement, we are trained to think about climate in terms of CO2, big oil, greenhouse gases. (5/x)

You want to talk about 100 year emissions targets, fine. But how about you we do something about the obvious things that are killing off species *now* like the ethanol mandate (ironically championed as “green”) and widespread toxins in the food chain? (6/x)

End of rant. Good morning!