Oh, it won't be 10 years, stop hoping for entertainment!
It will be a long, slow, boring grind taking place over generations. It already has been. I'm 43 and 66% of the world population is younger than me. I remember there were lots more insects (and amphibians and birds!) when I was a child. That's not considered a crisis for some reason, there's never been a protest about bugs as far as I can tell, and never some apocalyptic "Ahh, all the bugs just died!" moment. It's been "Ho hum, let me spray some more pesticide on my lawn to kill those pesky grubs again" the whole way.
The next generation will have never known what it was like to have XYZ plant or animal or insect or fish around, and they won't miss it.
A staggering loss that suggests the very fabric of North America’s ecosystem is unraveling.
Cornell Lab director John Fitzpatrick and study coauthor Peter Marra
I don't dispute those at all; I think we're headed for disaster. But Earth's ecosystems and biospheres are huge and complex. We've probably kicked off a cascade that inevitably leads to a major collapse already, but it be a long process, like watching a log decay. There will be spasms as this or that or the other species has a big spike and looks like it is "rebounding"--like swarms of locusts, e.g.--but really it's the system unraveling. The biosphere's natural way of adaptation is to dip into a reservoir of biodiversity via (sometimes local) extinction. It'll keep trying to settle into new configurations of stability, but they won't work, and they'll be temporary plateaus on our slide down this long slope.
It could take many decades or even centuries for most of the damage to be done. We're trying our hardest to speed it up, but yeah, there's a big reservoir to burn through and most of the time it will look like things are standing still.
Saying that everything is going to unravel in 10 years and collapse is going to turn out to not be true, even if the underlying dynamic is inexorably pointing in a bad direction and headed that way.
It will be a long, slow, boring grind taking place over generations. It already has been. I'm 43 and 66% of the world population is younger than me. I remember there were lots more insects (and amphibians and birds!) when I was a child. That's not considered a crisis for some reason, there's never been a protest about bugs as far as I can tell, and never some apocalyptic "Ahh, all the bugs just died!" moment. It's been "Ho hum, let me spray some more pesticide on my lawn to kill those pesky grubs again" the whole way.
The next generation will have never known what it was like to have XYZ plant or animal or insect or fish around, and they won't miss it.