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Comment There's always one... (Score 1) 40

Just like there are some physicians advising against vaccinations, there are some entomologists against honey bees. When an unscrupulous commercial beekeeper saturates a given area with too many hives, that's a problem, but he/she will be quickly paying for it with starving hives. Honey bees have coexisted with native bees for millennia and viruses, and other disease, transfers have been happening in both directions for as long. There's plenty of science out there pointing out that the primary cause for the decline of pollinators is the destruction of their natural habitats and monoculture, not competition from honey bees. Honey bees are generalists (they visit a variety of types of flowers unlike native bees) and coexist just fine with natives. And no, honey bees (always two words - there are many types of bees) are not an invasive species. They are as invasive as the wild American mustangs. Try arguing for their elimination and see how far you'll get. And double no, we will not starve without honey bees. Most of the food we eat is wind pollinated (all the grains). What we will lose is the variety, primarily in the fruit (apples and berries) and nut (almonds) categories.

Comment Re:Contradiction (Score 1) 203

In the past 100 years, farm employment went from 70% of the US population, to less than 5%. Where were all the starving out-of-work farmers rioting in the streets? In the last 50 years, factory employment in the us went from 30% of the US population to about 8%. Again, where are all the tales of woe? After all this automation of US jobs, we still have an unemployment rate below 5%.

Your tales of gloom and doom are much exaggerated.

A lot of researchers of the US politics point out to the loss of good paying jobs (read: manufacturing) to the rise of right wing attitudes and specifically to the raise of MAGA. Relentless pursuit of the cheapest source of widgets is not necessarily in the best interest of developed nations. There're no easy answers, but the massive shifts in types of labor *are* having an effect.

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