[ExI] bees again

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 21:28:07 UTC 2016


On 17 March 2016 at 20:29, spike  wrote:
>
> https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28167-bees-win-as-us-court-rules-against-neonicotinoid-pesticide/
>
> Watching that closely.  The evidence provide by Europe and UK bans on
> neonics are inconclusive.
>

I think the difficulty is that humans like problems that have *one* solution.
Just do X and the problem is fixed.

They don't like problems that have multiple causes and need multiple fixes.
Banning neonicotinoids should help a bit, perhaps more in some areas
and less in others. But by itself it probably won't solve the bee
decline. (And other insect species are declining as well).

Same with responding to climate change. Action is required on many fronts.

Perhaps humans will not react quickly enough to solve these
multi-factor problems.
There are too many different special interest groups opposing each
partial solution.

BillK



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