Pesticide believed to kill bees is authorised for use in England
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Re: Pesticide believed to kill bees is authorised for use in England
#2From the Pollinator Network @ Cornell:
https://pollinator.cals.cornell.edu/threats-wild-and-managed...
Re: Pesticide believed to kill bees is authorised for use in England
#3I don't trust the current UK government one shred, but there is a very small chance it is just for this emergency use to stop that sugar beet virus.
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#4I'm not educated in this area, but could they not use other methods to stem the reach of the virus? For example, are there other crops they could grow for a time until the viral amounts dropped lower?
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#5The extinction of honey bees is just a massive opportunity for a entrepreneurs.
Honestly why do we even fake that we give a shit anymore? Capital won, nature lost. Just turn the entire planet into Shenzhen and be done with it.
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#6So let me get this right 18m is more than the cost to us from the loss of bees? Really?!
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#7A society of advanced apes with a penchant for destroying their environment decides that a species that is necessary for their survival is better off dead because they don't care for a weird thing called science.
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#8I don't trust the current UK government one shred, but there is a very small chance it is just for this emergency use to stop that sugar beet virus.
Was there ever a government that was really that trustworthy? We’ve been losing our freedoms for a while now.
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#9The pesticide was banned by the EU 2 years back. Is there any evidence bees numbers have resurged? I'd be happy to keep this banned, I'm just asking...
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#10A society of advanced apes with a penchant for destroying their environment decides that a species that is necessary for their survival is better off dead because they don't care for a weird thing called science.
I don't think the UK wants the bee species dead. I think we/they just take for granted the resiliency of the environment we live in.