Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Toronto Star, 2014;
The dramatic decline in the monarch butterfly population in eastern North America is due largely to the steady loss of milkweed crops in U.S. breeding grounds, according to a new study that researchers say provides the first proof of the critical connection.
Scientists at the University of Guelph say they picked apart the various factors linked to the drop in migratory monarch butterflies and confirmed theories that the lack of milkweed is likely responsible for the plummeting butterfly population.
Environmental Working Group, 2013
In recent years, millions of acres of America’s native grasslands have been plowed under to grow corn for ethanol to blend into gasoline. And new research is clearly pointing to the federal ethanol mandate as a main driver of this tsunami of land conversion in the Midwest.
h/t Jamie Mac
Another victim of The Law of Unintended Consequence…
Yeah well, the introduction/range expansion of coyotes into SW Ontario has suppressed the groundhog/woodchuck infestation but it has not exterminated them anymore than chemical weed control/current practices has or will exterminate milkweed hence the Monarch Butterfly.
Milkweed remains a tough weed to control….the silly weed control(provincially mandated) practiced by road crews has little or no effect on milkweed.
No doubt there will continue to be milkweed and there will continue to be Monarch butterflies – just far fewer of them than in the days before addlepated “Greens” decided to DO SOMETHING to Save-the-Environment(TM) (and get justly rewarded for their munificence, of course). Truly the greatest danger facing the environment today is – modern-day “environmentalists”.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
The real threat to the Planet is environmentalists. They magnify the problems with every crazy scheme their socialist Masters come up with.
People who think they are little gods who can control the Universe.
“Another victim of The Law of Unintended Consequence…”
Ain’t that the truth. And at some point it morphs into the Law of Willful Blindness.
http://canadianlandowneralliance.ca/articles/Jamie-MacMaster-Swamp-Land.html
Law of unintended consequences: The noxious weed act, in-force in many provinces and US states. Want to know what one of those “noxious weeds” are? If you said milkweed, congratulations! In fact in Ontario, you can be fined for having it grow on your property, or in your fields. And the government even had groups going out and tearing the stuff up.
Apparently they’re rescinding that, so the milkweed is no longer considered a noxious weed. Other noxious weeds: Goldenrod…yeah.
“…the federal ethanol mandate as a main driver of this tsunami of land conversion…”
…but but but innocent ducks are DYING from the eeeeeevile Tar Sands! Booooo, hissssssss!
Milkweed. Seems that was a possible rubber replacement about 70 dday years ago
Great article.
This is how socialism works, as each successive law screws something up and then the so-called fix law screws it up even more with the net result being a totally screwed up country.