From: Douglas Grandt answerthecall@me.

com
Subject:Geologists get it, why don't engineers-turned-businessmen?
Date:October 20, 2017 at 12:34 PM
To:Suzanne M. McCarron Suzanne.M.McCarron@ExxonMobil.com, William (Bill) M. Colton William.M.Colton@ExxonMobil.com,
Jeffrey J. Woodbury jeff.j.woodbury@exxonmobil.com, Darren W. Woods Darren.W.Woods@ExxonMobil.com,
Susan K. Avery, PhD savery@whoi.edu
Cc: Max Schulz max.schulz@exxonmobil.com

Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after

dramatic plunge in insect numbers

Dear friends at ExxonMobil,

CO2, global warming and climate change from burning petroleum fuels are not implicated by this research, but this PLOS
One publication (Bit.ly/HallmannPLOS) is a clear message that we Western Civilization must reassess our analytical frame
and begin to enlighten our perspectives and thought processes. That includes not only the imposition of chemicals on insects
and unwanted vegetation, but chemicals and elements we release in the creation and release of energy as we breakdown
molecular bonds in organic material sequestered over hundreds of millions of years in a blink of an eye. Geologists get it,
why don't engineers-turned-businessmen? (Read Bit.ly/HallmannPLOS)
I understand the Corporate way of assessing investments, having had great mentors at Humble Oil. We really must change
our way of seeing the world, not through the lens of finance, but promoting life! Read More than 75 percent decline over 27
years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas (Bit.ly/Guard18Oct17) With respect of your time, this is a short clip:
The abundance of flying insects has plunged by three-quarters over the past 25 years, according to a new study that
has shocked scientists.
... the newly revealed scale of the losses to all insects has prompted warnings that the world is on course for
ecological Armageddon, with profound impacts on human society.
The cause of the huge decline is as yet unclear, although the destruction of wild areas and widespread use of
pesticides are the most likely factors and climate change may play a role. The scientists were able to rule out
weather and changes to landscape in the reserves as causes, but data on pesticide levels has not been collected.
The fact that the number of flying insects is decreasing at such a high rate in such a large area is an alarming
discovery, said Hans de Kroon, at Radboud University in the Netherlands and who led the new research.
Insects make up about two-thirds of all life on Earth [but] there has been some kind of horrific decline, said Prof
Dave Goulson of Sussex University, UK, and part of the team behind the new study. We appear to be making vast
tracts of land inhospitable to most forms of life, and are currently on course for ecological Armageddon. If we lose
the insects then everything is going to collapse.
Its time to reassess our use of present value discounted cash flow which ignores life on earth.

Sincerely yours,
Doug Grandt
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809

theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/18/warning-of-ecological-armageddon-after-dramatic-plunge-in-insect-numbers?
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