Rebecca McMackin
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328 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard 2d ago
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We are facing a biodiversity crisis of catastrophic proportions.
We're changing the planet so quickly that plants and animals cannot keep up.
You may have heard of the insect apocalypse, and unfortunately, it is just as terrifying as it sounds.
We have lost nearly half of insects on planet Earth just since I was a little kid.
Now, you might not like bugs, but they are still keeping you alive.
One in every three bites of food that you eat is the direct result of insect pollination.
And this isn't just a problem for humanity.
Where we have the data, we've lost a quarter of our birds.
In North America, it's 29 percent.
Most of these birds feed their babies exclusively on insects.
So it's not just climate change that we need to solve right now.
There is some existential multitasking required of us.
Thank goodness that there are solutions, and many of them literally involve planting flowers.
So let's talk about gardening for biodiversity, because while you might not be a gardener, I am still going to ask you to get your hands dirty.
All it takes is a pot on your stoop to have a positive effect.
The first thing we should all be doing are planting plants that are from the places where we're gardening.
We call them native plants, and they're important because they evolved alongside of the wildlife there.
Plants and animals often form relationships and even dependencies on each other.
For example, the eastern red columbine is arguably the most cheerful of our spring wildflowers.
But of course, they're not blooming for us.
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