• BigDickEnergy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I know we all love bees and everything, but they likely have little choice.

    Neonics are damaging but the damage done by pests in their absence is bigger. Beekeeping isn’t a major part of the economy.

    Obviously, it would be better to protect crops with something else. Genes offer a great alternative but France is unlikely to agree to anything as innovative as Gene Editing anytime soon. So neonics it is…

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      3 days ago

      Beekeeping isn’t a major part of the economy.

      You know what would be damaging to the economy? Losing our pollenators.

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        3 days ago

        Mark my word, a couple decades from now when the bees are dead and ecosystems are dying, we’ll have bio startups making mutant superbees and tech startups making pollinating microdrone swarms.