david wilson is a professor of biology at the university of sussex and also founder of the bumblebee conservation trust. he is here, the town of ox field and east sussex. and eliza greens is a biology researcher at the university of nevada. she joins us from dallas, texas. and of course, you can be part of this conversation. please send us any comments or questions me a, our live youtube chat. thank you to our guest so much for joining us for this important discussion. first establishing what this concern is the best guess from most scientists is that the rate of global insect decline is currently one to 2 percent a year. now to the average person that may not sound quite like a crisis. but erica, why is it that many scientists would say this is an emergency i'm, there's quite a lot of reasons. one of them is that this, this figure is actually from not from a very short period of time. i think david would be able to tell you more about this, save, sorry, but what it is important is the ultimate is dominated by and 6, so 80 percent of it described for now that is described for now usin

so there's a kind of there's an issue there with housing, but it's also the case that universities have i remember own university remember my own university of sussexsussex did this where they had huge affordable, huge amount of affordable, relatively least relatively affordable, at least when student when i was there, student accommodation. it accommodation. so it was like it was like living in bunk beds. we didn't mind it was very it was good it cheap and good fun, but it was cheap and they of knock all that down they kind of knock all that down and built much more and they've built much more expensive and so actually expensive stuff. and so actually student much expensive stuff. and so actually stude expensive much expensive stuff. and so actually stude expensive of much expensive stuff. and so actually stude expensive of and much expensive stuff. and so actually stude expensive of and i much expensive stuff. and so actually stude expensive of and i think:h more expensive of and i think universities are pretty, you know, that they are know, we know this that they are in terms of student intake pretty they take pretty greedy. i mean they take on

universal health care, low cost for free preschool/daycare, and fix social security. the military industrial complex will bankrupt the country. here's another from twitter, from chris in sussex, new jersey . either we defend constitutional rule ofaw and right to due process under the law, which china, russia, north korea, it's a drug, want to undermine or we don't. u.s. politicians want to abandon ukraine in nato, leaf south korea and japan, china, russia, north korea, etc. are hoping for that. julianne on facebook, america funding all these foreign wars and entanglements. jean writes iran getting a nuke and we will get more to that, but let's go back to the phone lines in pennsylvania. thatcher, democratic line. thatcher, are you there? caller: yes, how are you doing? host: good, what is your top foreign policy issue? caller: this is all i got to say about it, putin, whatever they do to ukraine, they should rebuild ukraine. and then all this would be stuff and everything from china and they go to work, can't we can address and send it back to you. we just buy things here, there, wherever. how can we get it to work? nothing is changing. why can't we all just get along? you know? host: thatcher, appreciate your call. the previou

universal health care, low cost for free preschool/daycare, and fix social security. the military industrial complex will bankrupt the country. here's another from twitter, from chris in sussex, new jersey . either we defend constitutional rule ofaw and right to due process under the law, which china, russia, north korea, it's a drug, want to undermine or we don't. u.s. politicians want to abandon ukraine in nato, leaf south korea and japan, china, russia, north korea, etc. are hoping for that. julianne on facebook, america funding all these foreign wars and entanglements. jean writes iran getting a nuke and we will get more to that, but let's go back to the phone lines in pennsylvania. thatcher, democratic line. thatcher, are you there? caller: yes, how are you doing? host: good, what is your top foreign policy issue? caller: this is all i got to say about it, putin, whatever they do to ukraine, they should rebuild ukraine. and then all this would be stuff and everything from china and they go to work, can't we can address and send it back to you. we just buy things here, there, wherever. how can we get it to work? nothing is changing. why can't we all just get along? you know? host: thatcher, appreciate your call. the previou