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25 Jun 2014, 5:02 pm

It would be a really good idea to stop saturating everything in poison.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/pesti ... -1.2685492


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25 Jun 2014, 5:31 pm

Misslizard wrote:
It would be a really good idea to stop saturating everything in poison.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/pesti ... -1.2685492


agree totally



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25 Jun 2014, 8:39 pm

Misslizard wrote:
It would be a really good idea to stop saturating everything in poison.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/pesti ... -1.2685492


What about your "news bees"?
Does this affect them, too?
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25 Jun 2014, 8:43 pm

Yup,then they only bring bad news.


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26 Jun 2014, 2:58 pm

Misslizard wrote:
It would be a really good idea to stop saturating everything in poison.

I couldn't have agreed more. As Albert Einstein said, ?If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.? I sometimes wonder (and fear) what would happen if it actually happened... :(


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26 Jun 2014, 5:18 pm

Monsanto wants all bees dead because they spread their patents around



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30 Jun 2014, 8:56 pm

WitchsCat wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
It would be a really good idea to stop saturating everything in poison.

I couldn't have agreed more. As Albert Einstein said, ?If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.? I sometimes wonder (and fear) what would happen if it actually happened... :(


Maybe not that dramatic, but there's no way that earth could support the fauna (including man) populations at current levels, and some think that even current levels are WAY too high. The earth is severely overpopulated, and that goes for all fauna, radical environmentalists like to talk about too many people but the problem isn't just people. Eventually, there will be a crash, and it will be messy, with everything from rats to people fighting over dramatically fewer resources.



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30 Jun 2014, 9:15 pm

pezar wrote:
WitchsCat wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
It would be a really good idea to stop saturating everything in poison.

I couldn't have agreed more. As Albert Einstein said, ?If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.? I sometimes wonder (and fear) what would happen if it actually happened... :(


Maybe not that dramatic, but there's no way that earth could support the fauna (including man) populations at current levels, and some think that even current levels are WAY too high. The earth is severely overpopulated, and that goes for all fauna, radical environmentalists like to talk about too many people but the problem isn't just people. Eventually, there will be a crash, and it will be messy, with everything from rats to people fighting over dramatically fewer resources.

the earth is in now way overpopulated
people just like to stack on top of each other the entire world population can fit in just a few states with everyone having an acre of land



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01 Jul 2014, 12:25 am

WitchsCat wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
It would be a really good idea to stop saturating everything in poison.

I couldn't have agreed more. As Albert Einstein said, ?If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.? I sometimes wonder (and fear) what would happen if it actually happened... :(


There is no record of him saying that, and even if he did, he was a theoretical physicist and not an apiarist.



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02 Jul 2014, 6:28 pm

Once again, this started out sounding like a real crisis, but now I have my doubts.
Where are the orchard owners moaning that they'll go broke because all the bees have died??
Also the chain supermarkets, I'd expect them to be taking out full page ads saying there won't be any more apples (or whatever) because all the bees have died.


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02 Jul 2014, 7:28 pm

https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/s ... te-by-hand


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03 Jul 2014, 7:04 am

They were "humbled" by Iron Sheik :wink:



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04 Jul 2014, 2:52 pm

The articles always use words like 'a large number', or 'many.' The reporter never asks Jim the beekeeper how many he's lost. You never hear, 'well I had 10,000 bees and they all died.'


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04 Jul 2014, 3:46 pm

http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572


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05 Jul 2014, 11:31 pm

chris5000 wrote:
the earth is in now way overpopulated


Are you volunteering to pack up and leave to reduce the "overpopulation"?

In reality, the Earth is only overpopulated if it cannot produce the resources necessary to support the population. Of course, with progress it can support more and more people. It is hardly overpopulated today, but it would be if we had not progressed over the years.



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05 Jul 2014, 11:34 pm

WitchsCat wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
It would be a really good idea to stop saturating everything in poison.

I couldn't have agreed more. As Albert Einstein said, ?If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.? I sometimes wonder (and fear) what would happen if it actually happened... :(
Can you provide citations to where he actually said that?

Hint: There is no indication that Einstein ever had anything to say about bees.