The sluggard has no locusts: From persistent pest to irresistible icon
The sluggard has no locusts: From persistent pest to irresistible icon
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懒汉没有蝗虫：从顽固害虫到不可抗拒的偶像
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Luke D. Fannin
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作者：
N. Dominy;Luke D. Fannin
蝗虫和 COVID-19 的双重冲击正在威胁数百万人的粮食安全，并摧毁东非和印度北部的经济。正在发生的沙漠蝗虫（Schistocerca gregaria）爆发是七十年来最大规模的一次。这些事件让我们有理由反思蝗虫的自然历史、我们与它们之间令人担忧的关系，以及它们在流行文化中的表现方式。象征性的表征跨越了数千年，大多数都根源于蝗虫的自然生命周期——它们变形、成群结队、摧毁特定的粮食作物——即使我们倾向于夸大个体的体型和控制措施的有效性。除了讽刺幽默的形式外，很少有表达人类徒劳的行为。最后，我们建议我们沉迷于夸张和幽默，以使自己正常化并习惯于心理上难以忍受的事情，同时促使我们采用创造性的反蝗虫技术。随着北印度洋气旋活动的增加，这些技术的社会、政治和经济重要性预计也会增加。
The twin shocks of locusts and COVID-19 are threatening the food security of millions of people and devastating economies in eastern Africa and northern India. The ongoing outbreak of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) is the largest in seven decades. These events give us cause to reflect on the natural history of locusts, our fraught relationship with them, and how they are represented in popular culture. Symbolic representations span millennia and most have roots in the natural life cycle of locusts––they transform, they swarm, they devastate specific food crops––even if we tend to exaggerate individual body sizes and the effectiveness of our control efforts. Expressions of human futility are rare except in the form of ironic humor. We conclude by suggesting that we indulge in hyperbole and humor to normalize and inure ourselves to what is psychologically unbearable, and simultaneously impel us toward creative anti-locust technologies. The social, political, and economic importance of these technologies is expected to increase with projections of increased cyclone activity in the northern Indian Ocean.
电影中的怪物因恐惧而进化
影响因子：
56.9
作者：
Dominy, Nathaniel J.;Calsbeek, Ryan
通讯作者：
Calsbeek, Ryan