talk to dave colson, professor of biology at the university of sussex and author of silent earth burning . in sic apocalypse. busy dave galsen, professor of biology at the university of sussex and author of fallon, earth of burning the in sick polyps. welcome to our show, pray to have you this pleasure to be here. all right, so when you tell someone that the populations of insects are going down and the most frequent reaction will be what lake. oh, well, whatever. there would be less of that annoying, buzzing and stinging. can you summarize? whereas what exactly happens when we superior and why really shouldn't be happy yet? of course, i mean, you're absolutely correct. many people really don't like insects very much and, and they think it's a good thing if they're, if you're insects, but actually it's a disaster. so insects make up the bulk of all life on earth of we've named so far about one and a half 1000000 species of animal plant on our planet of which 1100000 different types of insect. so they are bio diversity ready or big chunk of it. and the food for many of the organisms that

professor of biology at the university of suspects, an author of violent earth averting in sick apocalypse. busy dave golfing professor of biology at the university of sussex and author of fallon, earth averting the in sick polyps. welcome to our show. great. have you this pleasure to be here? all right, so when you tell someone that the populations of insects are going down and the most frequent reaction would be what lake. oh, well, whatever. there would be less of that annoying, buzzing and stinging. can you summarize? whereas what exactly happens when in this appear and why really shouldn't be happy? yet? of course, you're absolutely correct. many people really don't like insects very much and, and they think it's a good thing if they're, if you're insects, but actually it's a disaster. so insects make up the bulk of all life on earth of we've named so far about one and a half 1000000 species of animal plant on our planet of which 1100000 different types of insect. so they are bio diversity ready or big chunk of it and the food for many of the organisms that insects, those lots of birds and baths and small mammals and freshwater fish. and i'm, phoebe e

issued by both of us to choose the the back when they've gotten professor of biology at the university of sussex and other of silent earth averting the insects apocalypse. dave in china. i've heard farmers have sorry to pollinate their orchards by hand. can this be the future of recall? true. i mean, everywhere in the world they've, china can do it. well. yeah, no it's, i mean it's pretty terrifying. actually. you're right in in 5, west china. they're a big areas of apple and pair orchard which and i will hand pollinated. but in china, labor is very cheap, i compared to most of the rest of the world. and it's a relatively high value crop. it's really hard to see farmers in, in the developed world. so being able to afford to pay people to, to walk around the fields, hand pollinating every flower and it would certainly be incredibly expensive. and that would mean massive increases in the price of food. and it seems kind of nuts to spend all that money on employing people to do what b 's do really well for free. it would be much cheaper, i think, to look after the bees than to try and do their job

talk to dave colton, professor of biology at the university of sussex and author of silent earth, burning in sic pocket lives. they've got some professor of biology at the university of sussex and author of violent or subverting the in sick pocket lives. welcome to our show. great. have you this pleasure to be here? all right, so when you tell someone that the populations of insects are going down and the most frequent reaction would be what lake. oh, well whatever, there would be less of that annoying but.

we continue to talk electra at the university of sussex in the middle east of north african politics in terms of the military. now initially i was told that the military were not involved, may not get involved, but now was surrounding lots of the government buildings across the country. what would the role of the military be and how difficult to position all they in if they have public sentiment. so vehemently against the politicians and yet the president calling all the shots, are there an incredibly difficult position and in a position not in some way potentially recalls that their position about a decade ago. i think the 1st thing to say on the military, and this is really, really crucial because comparisons are easily torn with egypt, is that trinity has not egypt. and that's in the military traditionally has played a less active role in the countries politics. now we've seen an increasing politicization of security forces, not just the military, but also the police, which i think is the key actor, to keep an eye on here in the last couple of years. and they are now going to be i

professor of biology at the university of suspects, an author of violent earth averting in sick apocalypse. busy dave golfing professor of biology at the university of sussex and author of fallon, earth of burning the in sick polyps. welcome to our show. great. have you this pleasure to be here? all right, so when you tell someone that the populations of insects are going down and the most frequent reaction will be what lake. oh, well whatever. there will be less of that annoying, buzzing and stinging. can you summarize? whereas what exactly happens when in this appear and why really shouldn't be happy? yet? of course, you're absolutely correct. many people really don't like insects very much and, and they think it's a good thing if they're, if you're insects, but actually it's a disaster. so insects make up the bulk of all life on earth of we've named so far about one and a half 1000000 species of animal plant on our planet of which 1100000 different types of insect. so they are bio diversity ready or big chunk of it and the food for many of the organisms that infect says lots of birds and baths and small mammals and freshwater fish. and i'm piggy ends an

that's kelly and thanks very much for your insight. mccleary and then from the university of sussex me case of current virus of some to a record daily high in the host city of the olympics. they've been almost 3000 new infections in japan's capital token process of being held against the games with concerns. it'll become a super spreader event. russia has reported another 23000 new cases in almost 800 death. there's been little improvement in the high infection and death rates in the past week. it's been blame to on the fast spreading delta variance on the countries slow vaccination rollout. algeria has had, it says night under a new pandemic caffeine to stem the spread of the delta variant. it's in effect in most of the countries 58 provinces. additional measures include a band on all gatherings, james beaches, and many of the public places are closed. public health officials say 71 percent of new infections in july are linked to down to the white house is refusing to buckle the pressure to live cave. in 1900 travel restrictions. the non americans, the delta variant appears to be spre

the university of sussex is institute of development studies with us from frankfurt, germany today. max sam was telling us there about how life is carrying on, quote, unquote, as normal, but the fact is normal was already different for tennessee. and wasn't it all of the covert problems? economic problems, post i, phil attacks in 2015. the economy was already in all sorts of trouble. yes, absolutely. the current political crisis is coming on top of a really, really dire help. crisis with because it demick and it is coming at the end of a long economic crisis that has played the country and made life really hard for a lot of them. and for a long time, this goes back to not just the 2011 revolution but, but also the, have been on the reading before that cost of living up and writing for a long time. inflation is been very serious on employment, very high. so the economy situation is been on people's minds way before the events of the last couple of days. i often hear and read about the tourism sector being obviously adversely affected by all of this. is that absolutely crucial to tune his

the institute of development studies at the university of sussex joins us by skype from freeburg in germany. good to have you with us. so this lines talk about how the speaker of parliament has been calling on the president to reverse is decision. do you think the president will be listening to that? i imagine he'll be listening it to i doubt he'll be following it. i don't think that is an unsurprising call, but it is the logical call for the speaker parliament to make it a logical cause, a parliament to not accept it. it's 3 thing, but there seems to be a larger kind of plan in place and including obviously the a worrying attack against your colleagues to know that does not make me think that this will, this will be walked back too quickly. that being said, there are political forces with and near the and i think the labor union, this includes wider society organization and includes the remaining force parliament that can push back against us. and i think that can still affect how this is going to play out. so this is still very much a developing situation, or i think it will be important

earlier as well, middle east and north africa, expert institute of development studies at the university of sussex. joining me from fryeburg a in germany to actually get the narrative out max and to explain your position. obviously, you need to be able to communicate if at the moment what we understand, if the president himself has cut those communication lines, certainly to the international media. how did the domestic politics, the politicians that don't agree with the president? how are they going to get that message out? how are they going to ask questions? yeah, that's exactly the question. and i mean, maybe 1st of all, just process the best thing that i hook your team into this is okay. and that it's incredibly worrying what is happening on that front. i'd also say that i think yes, we've seen demonstrations in, in favor and generations in public, in favor of, of the fact that the president but i would be very cautious in interpreting that, especially in terms of interpreting that in terms of wider public opinion after the coup in egypt, we saw massive public demonstrations, but that again,

the institute of development studies at the university of sussex and southern england joins me now from fryeburg in germany. could talk with a mr. get, let's just get your initial reaction to what you're hearing about this ongoing situation and to nicea. good morning, thank you very much for having me. and let me start by saying that i hope your team and tune is doing okay. i think the 1st thing to say in all of this is that this is an ongoing situation. and obviously analysis is coming through very quickly from many different perspective. but it is happening that, you know, it's still developing very quickly. and i do think we will have to take that into account. obviously, the 1st question is, what happened yesterday and whether that is the coo and i think certainly, you know, it works like a to to, and it talks like a q and a in many bray that has that appearance. and certainly it does not seem to be backed entirely by article 80 of the constitution not being said, i think it still does. trace matters, playing out today and will have to watch how people st, very acting, but also how

specializing in middle east and north africa at the institute of development studies at the university of sussex. he says, fill up a unity for negotiated political solutions to this crisis. obviously, the 1st question is, what happened yesterday and whether that is the coo and i think certainly, you know, it was like a to to and it in talks like a coo and in many bray that has that parents. and certainly it does not seem to be backed entirely by articulate the constitution. that being said, i think it, it still, if the treatment is playing out today, and we'll have to watch how people are st, very acting, but also how he institutional actors, including parliament and including security forces and including the unions are going to react to this. so i think if it's a situation of the playing out and that's important to keep in mind the constitutional court, obviously it's kind of the overarching issue here and kind of the overarching political failure often of the political class. and in the past couple of years just in the inability to, to create a constitutional court. and obviously there is no