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Sidetrack: I think the focus on domesticated bees as pollinators is dangerous. If wild polinators can't survive we are fucked even if we have bees.
by progre 5y ago
Sidetrack: I think the focus on domesticated bees as pollinators is dangerous. If wild polinators can't survive we are fucked even if we have bees.
- mstipetic 5y agoWe are fucked anyways. In my area we just had no rain for more than a month (where usually there should be 12 rainy days) with basically drought coming - nobody even noticed, they were busy with more important things I guess
- adamdusty 5y agoLocal weather stories hardly mean we're fucked. It snowed and hailed in Tucson yesterday. Does that mean we're all saved?
- notum 5y agoWhy yes, yes it does. Thank you sweet baby Jesus! I'm off to grab a candy bar from my bug-out bag.
- mstipetic 5y agoIt's not about the weather, it's about how detached we are from the world
- adamdusty 5y agoAh, okay. I misinterpreted what you were saying.
- msrenee 5y agoThey are definitely an indication of where we're headed if it's been a trend. Is this the first dry March in a while or the dryest March in a series of gradual dryer ones over the poster's lifetime?
- HideousKojima 5y agoThere are solitary bees (leafcutter bees, carpenter bees, etc.) that can still pollinate and who do not suffer from colony collapse.
- frankzander 5y agoBut from diversity loss (that biodiversity one ;) and pesticides
- tastyfreeze 5y agoI came to say something similar. If we stopped spraying everything with herbicide, pesticide, and fungicide we wouldn't have a pollinator problem. We need to stop trying to subdue mother nature to our will and work with her.
- 0des 5y agoWe need less people. As with livestock, the more of a crop or animal you pack into close proximity the higher the chance one disturbance or sickness wipes out everything which is what makes those chemicals a necessity. Unfortunately you can't feed this many peoples demand without superfarming. Make less people, decrease demand, and if we aren't able to make less people we should make these people less wasteful and consumptive
- tastyfreeze 5y ago> Unfortunately you can't feed this many peoples demand without superfarming. There is a growing contingent of farmers proving this statement to be false by producing more on the same land with minimal use of fertilizer or biocides.