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A - Doesn't sound like enough advantage over disadvantage. B - Sounds like it would need regulation? Who is making sure farmers are using it in this manner?
by FrustratedMonky 3y ago
A - Doesn't sound like enough advantage over disadvantage.
B - Sounds like it would need regulation? Who is making sure farmers are using it in this manner?
It isn't just bumblebee impairment. Entire colonies die.
Bumblebees are needed to pollinate a large percentage of our food -> Hence not a "rational decision".
TO say nothing of impact on humans, and the half life in water runoff.
- idiotsecant 3y agoYes. Both points A and B could benefit from regulation. A lot of things we do kill animals, insects, and plants. The house or office you're sitting in displaced a great deal of natural biosphere. It emitted and emits a great deal of carbon. Should we tear that down too? No, obviously not, because we enjoy living. You can't ignore those same tradeoffs when they happen to not be taking place in your back yard. We can make sensible regulation to minimize our impact but sometimes we need to make an impact to extract resources, just how it is.