A new survey says America's honeybee hives just staggered through the second highest death rate on record, with beekeepers losing nearly half of their managed colonies. But using costly measures to create new colonies, beekeepers are somehow keeping afloat. Thursday’s University of Maryland and Auburn University survey says that even though 48% of colonies were lost in the year that ended April 1, the number of United States honeybee colonies remained relatively stable. Honeybees are crucial to the food supply, pollinating more than 100 of the crops we eat, including nuts, vegetables and fruits. Scientists blame parasites, pesticides, starvation and climate change for large die-offs.
It’s amazing how cold and callous we can be behind the guise of a username and a keyboard. Keep your beliefs to yourself and don’t push your desire to not have children on others. It’s a personal choice and you absolutely have no business interjecting that opinion onto anyone else.
I thought beehaw was supposed to be the “nice” instance. You and others have done a wonderful job proving that otherwise today.
I personally disagree with the sentiment that going child-free is the solution to ecological catastrophe. Any individual’s decision to have children, or not, hardly compares to the systemic issues within agriculture and natural resource management which are causing it.
Well, the original comment in this thread which upset you came from your own instance. From where I’m sitting, that comment has been pretty much the only not-really-nice interaction you’ve had all day on here. Don’t really see where this strawman is coming from.
What straw man? It was brought up directly again by a user of that community. Let me be clear and cut straight to the heart of the matter. No straw man needed, this is solely my opinion and is not directed at anyone else.
If “they”, and I mean people in general are telling others to not have children, they are no different than the Trumpy republicans trying to control what others do in the bedroom or stop them from being who they want to be. It is nobody’s business what others decide to do in the bedroom and I am passionate in that belief. There we go, I hope we’ve settled the matter.
I’m tired of being grumpy. So I hope we can drop this and bury the hatchet now. I agree this entire topic is wildly off topic to the purpose of the thread. I just wanted to help some god damn honey bee’s.