Shame. The US is a beautiful country and psycho cult rednecks have let deregulation ruin such beautiful wilderness.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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The longer I live the more I see modern civilization collapse inevitable and happening in the relatively near future.
How the fuck do you even prepare for something like that?
U don't. U just watch it collapse. If u cannot control something, don't worry too much. That's my take. Enjoy everyday.
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it's the European honey bee that's dying in unprecedented numbers
but it's not all bees
European honey bees are the easy button for farmers but they are going to have to decide if pesticide is more important or not
this nobody knows what's happening is bullshit provided by the likes of the Monsanto and other chemical companies
I'm not too up to date with this story, but haven't pesticides been used for forever now? Why would the suddenly cause a 80% drop in population?
It's not the same pesticides year over year. My bet is some MBA pushed a tweak to the formula for short term gains.
resist
I think bee populations are under threat from pesticides, habitat reduction, disease, climate change, nutrition, et cetera.
Of that list, pesticides are probably the easiest to solve.
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They (save for a smarter minority) are 100% gonna decide that pesticides are more important. Until they learn they aren't, but it will be too late.
The company that makes roundup and the GMO plants that can resist it will decide for them
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LETS KEEP PUMPING CAPITALISM UP
NEW IPHONE WITH AI LETS GOOOOO
Sorry for getting all excited, it’s just we don’t have much time.
honeybees are an invasive species, fun fact
unfortunately they outcompeted a lot of the native pollinators so we're fucked without them though
humans are a more invasive species, probably the most
No "probably" about it.
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It may not be related but forest fires are raging in many US states and it isn’t even summer yet
We know why.
Why?
Because someone told us
You know.
I have no idea
Rhymes with Bonsanto
Bees live less than two months, so if only 80% of bees died in the last 8 months that would suggest a sharp recent population increase. And even if you take it as read that it means bees dying and not being replaced, 8 months is still a terrible timeframe to use because it's literally saying "there are 80% fewer bees now, at the tail end of winter, than there were at the height of bee season".
I'm not saying there isn't a bee crisis, just that this factoid is very badly worded.
Without looking at data it could also mean "beginning 8 months ago we noticed a downwards trend of bees compared to the prior year(s) that culminates to an 80% decline at the time of writing."
We're pretty sure it's the Monsanto pesticide and anyone who suggests it is hit with a litigation threat. Curiously, as we're speed-breeding domesticated bees the wild bees are dying out faster, so as the bee population dwindles it also becomes more domesticated and less wild. I know that's a bad thing, but I am fuzzy on the why details.
I'm a brown thumb, and plants wilt as my shadow falls on them, but if you're a green-thumb, plant pollinators, which will help the bees.
Also plant milkweed for the monarchs.
Some beekeepers actually mentioned that they've been scraping the beeswax clean off their hives more frequently because its known that the beeswax collects pesticides and herbicides over time which affects the colony due to exposure.
The problem is its not just monsanto acid, there's a ton of other issues also correlated like weather/climate, seasonal flowering, untreated parasites, bacteria, etc.
We've literally nuked the environment so hard that even if we fix one problem, the population will not make a full bounce back (although I would think monsanto is the biggest threat)
Biggest scam of this century was corporate produce monoliths convincing people Organic was about health and not the fact that it doesn't use a scorched earth policy and scam one off hybrid plant seeds to grow food which has been setting us up for a widespread fammine for decades.
Some random superweed is gonna crossbreed with some rapid out of control growth plant and wipe out half of the food chain.
Also, the domesticated bees are generally honeybees. And unfortunately, honeybee and wild bees don't fulfill the same rile, so even if we replaced wild bees with honeybees 1:1, we still wouldn't be able to polinate everything.
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Plant native. Plants that are native to your ecosystem. Those are the true pollinator powerhouse plants that bees need to survive
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