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The bottom line is there are huge corporate interests willing to spend money to bury the fact that their investments in toxic agricultural pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are having a permanent, devastating effect on the planetary biome.

The collapsing honey bee is the poster child of the irrevocable damage they are perpetrating on the planet, which is the mostly silent holocaust of our times.

So take any positive media on the recovery of the honey bee that isn't result of curbing industrial agricultural practice, with a big grain of organic salt.



> irrevocable damage

That seems a bit hyperbolic to me. The damage seems revocable if actual effort were put into it instead of just papering over the symptoms.

Of course such things often require policy change, change that some people might oppose. But that does not make the damage itself irrevocable.

It just means that people are prioritizing other goals over it.


If the monarch butterfly goes extinct like the passenger pigeon, that's irrevocable. And evidence is mounting that we are at the edge of an man made extinction event, and by evidence I mean the number of species that go extinct per year. I don't think the big concern here is hyperbole, but rather the papering of it over, on which point we agree.




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