[ExI] bees again

[William Flynn Wallace]

BillK wrote:  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.
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You are a Congressman.  The fellow in front of you, smiling and shaking
your hand, is a big source of campaign money.  There are lots like him too.

But you are representing thousands or even millions of constituents.  What
about them?  Too abstract.

In Mississippi (elsewhere I just dunno - did not Google it) a legislator
can use campaign funds for ANYTHING - trips to Florida, cars, mortgage
payments.  (Big series in our local paper on this).  We are judged the most
corrupt state in the US.  Our ethics commissions etc. are a joke.

Maybe it isn't this bad in DC, or maybe it's worse.  I dunno.  But fixing
campaign financing would seem to help us all and cost us nothing.  Who is
going to lobby for this besides Ralph Nader, Consumer Reports, and the like
- in other words, not contributors?

We don't like what is going on in Washington.  Trump shows us that in
spades.  I would not vote for him for dogcatcher, but we do need someone(s)
to radically change the way our representatives do their business.

bill w

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:28 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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