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98% of all animal species on Earth have a PR problem. That’s bad news for everyone. [Warning: insect images]

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Tags: invertebrates, ecology, entomology, author.tamar stelling, source.the correspondent
https://thecorrespondent.com/377/98-of-all-animal-species-on-earth-have-a-pr-problem-thats-bad-news-for-everyone/2306441137-c0c5e7e4

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Authors
Tamar Stelling
Published
Apr 9 2020
Word count
1464 words

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    Warning added for insectiphobes. From the article: Note: My share link should take you past the login page, but please support The Correspondent.

    Warning added for insectiphobes.

    From the article:

    It was my first real Matrix moment. One of those instants when you suddenly realise something and there’s no turning back: you’ll always see things differently.

    That was when I discovered, more or less by accident, that humans pretty much hate almost all animals on earth.

    What, all animals? Well, invertebrates.

    Spiders, insects, jellyfish, crabs, worms, molluscs – in other words, animals without a backbone, which make up 98% of all animal species. Why, though?

    Because invertebrates have a PR problem. It’s been like that for centuries.

    Shouldn’t we work on this? After all, there may be a connection between this image issue and the mass insect deaths, which have been causing considerable panic for some years now. A chronic lack of good insect PR may be fatal – for more lifeforms than just insects.

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