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The Beepocalypse Has Been Canceled

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 4/3/2024 12:09:11 AM

Yesterday, we were all going to die because there would be no more bees. Today, insects will all die because there are too many bees, or something. It turns out that neither assertion is true. The beepocalypse was always a manufactured panic, although a rather profitable one for a small slice of the population who "consulted" on how to save the bees. Environmentalists loved the story because it provided another angle to attack industrial agriculture. And, of course, for the media, which regularly push false narratives to keep us excited. The Washington Post presents a fascinating observation: never before in American history have there been more bee colonies.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MrDeplorable 4/3/2024 1:13:16 AM (No. 1691439)
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a state of alarm ( and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. H L Mencken
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Highlander 4/3/2024 4:04:15 AM (No. 1691485)
All this bees-ness is a continuation of the spotted owl syndrome. Find a helpless endangered life form and block capitalism and progress with leftist environmentalism.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: chumley 4/3/2024 4:52:07 AM (No. 1691506)
My shrubs are blooming and the bees are all over them. I dont see any shortage.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: franq 4/3/2024 7:04:50 AM (No. 1691545)
Perhaps 20% of what is proclaimed in the news is actually true. Local news is probably less at risk. Shootings, cats up trees, traffic jams...
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Axeman 4/3/2024 10:17:36 AM (No. 1691724)
The non-native to the Americas invasive honeybee was never in any danger out in the wild. The beekeeping industry was having a little trouble but was dealing with it fine. We also have a lot of native wild bees that are busy pollinating things in a non industrial kind of way.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Kate318 4/3/2024 10:52:22 AM (No. 1691768)
“… it turns out that [bee] colony collapse syndrome goes back as far as records of bee colonies do. It apparently is cyclical, and nobody knows why.” And, there you have it. The way of Nature. It’s all cyclical.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 4/3/2024 8:16:17 PM (No. 1692130)
I was always very skeptical about this latest "the sky is falling" scare. Like the "ozone hole will kill us all" and a dozen other lines of BS....never happened. Just like "climate emergency".....does NOT exist.
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