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>> addressing the underlying cause of the leak There are problem causes that are very hard to address. E.g. alcohol consumption causing a lot of traffic accide
by rational-future 11y ago
>> addressing the underlying cause of the leak
There are problem causes that are very hard to address. E.g. alcohol consumption causing a lot of traffic accidents.
Or massive corporations, with huge lobbying budgets, releasing toxins in the environment. Toxins that cause no obvious harm, but kill a lot of bees or cause cancer in some humans after 20 years of exposure.
- 13thLetter 11y agoCan you be more specific about what these toxins are, and how it's known that they kill bees or cause cancer over a period of twenty years?
- anon1385 11y agoIn the case of neonicotinoids and honeybees recent research suggests it disrupts their ability to navigate back to the hive: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0091364 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
- icebraining 11y agoDo they actually die as a result, or just continue living somewhere else? Because if the problem is just that beekeepers lose them, that doesn't seem so bad as if it actually decimated them.