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Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold
(www.sciencedaily.com)
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"Scientists synthesize nutrients Bees no longer get because humans destroyed all the flowers, and we think this is a net good."
It's possible to make things worse when attempting to solve a problem made by uncaring people. Making things better, temporarily, often gives them more time to continue to make things worse. Making things better this way also leads people at-large to believe they no longer need to take steps back away from disaster.
Don't be unnecessarily negative about this. The people trying to figure this out want to make things good again. Destroying the planet is easy. Fixing it is alot harder!
This isn't fixing. This is a bandaid for some symptoms because god forbid we stop burning the planet to the ground.
Yeah, it's like when firefighters "save" people from burning building and everyone's like, "well done firefighters, you did a good job" and I'm over here being smart and sensible saying "if firefighters were such heroes, why did the building burn down in the first place?" because I am very smart and sensible.
Yeah we are all aware, however that's not changing and in that light, this is a good thing.
They’ve done far more than you have so far. And maybe because of it some bees will still be around to benefit when people “stop burning the planet to the ground”. Turns out both ecology and environmentalism is more than performative statements.
The way you're quoting this implies sarcasm or derision. Okay then, we should do nothing? The ecosystem is a wreck, yes, and acting our entire species took part is disingenuous at best.
Yeah. That's unfortunate. An absolute travesty. But we've found a way to fix what we have fucked up. And that's good. Don't minimalize it.
We've broken the system. That sucks. But we've found a way to fix it for now. Not as good, but we are trying to do something.
Give some credit to the folks that are trying to fix our fuck ups. God damn it some people have realized what a mess we've made and are trying to do something to fix it. Small wins may just save our asses if we let them stack up enough.
No no, you see other people did bad things, so the scientists' attempts to make the world a better place are bad. That's just how ethical philosophy works, I don't make the rules