{"id":87959,"date":"2019-02-19T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T18:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/without-bugs-we-might-all-be-dead"},"modified":"2019-02-19T10:03:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T18:03:04","slug":"without-bugs-we-might-all-be-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/without-bugs-we-might-all-be-dead","title":{"rendered":"Without Bugs, We Might All Be Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/without-bugs-we-might-all-be-dead.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are 1.4 billion insects for each one of us. Though you often need a microscope to see them, insects are \u201cthe lever pullers of the world,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmacneal.com\/\">David MacNeal<\/a>, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/bugged\/davidmacneal\/9781250095503\/\">Bugged<\/a>. They do everything from feeding us to cleaning up waste to generating $57 billion for the U.S. economy alone.<\/p>\n<p>Today, many species are faced with extinction. When National Geographic caught up with MacNeal in Los Angeles, he explained why this would be catastrophic for life on Earth and why a genetically engineered bee could save hives\u2014and our food supply\u2014worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/08\/insect-bug-medicine-food-macneal\/?cmpid=org%3Dngp%3A%3Amc%3Dsocial%3A%3Asrc%3Dfacebook%3A%3Acmp%3Deditorial%3A%3Aadd%3Dfb20190219animals-resurfbooktalkinsects%3A%3Arid%3D&sf207897588=1\">https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/08\/insect-bug-medic...07897588=1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 1.4 billion insects for each one of us. Though you often need a microscope to see them, insects are \u201cthe lever pullers of the world,\u201d says David MacNeal, author of Bugged. They do everything from feeding us to cleaning up waste to generating $57 billion for the U.S. economy alone. Today, many species [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,39,12,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-economics","category-existential-risks","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}