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byron posted...

darkphoenix181 posted...

humans can replace the work bees do, that 1 human can pollenate more and faster than a few bees, it is just that people don't want to do that

Ladies and gentleman, the "intellectual" right.

Are you the intellectual left?

Cause if so...

https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/5193-Decline-of-bees-forces-China-s-apple-farmers-to-pollinate-by-hand

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/life-without-bees-hand-human-pollination-rural-chi/

http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/12/04/248795791/how-important-is-a-bee

What's more, from an economic perspective, people contribute more to the local economy than bees do. When Chinese workers get paid (even though in this case much of the work was bartered), they use their money to buy food, get haircuts, and pay rent. And those payments employ other people. "Worker bees don't head off to the bar or the grocery store when their day is done," writes MacKinnon.

Which is why in a paper they called "The Parable of the Bees," the economists seemed to turn the moral of the Bee Tale on its head. They declared,

Using the example of apple tree pollination in Maoxian County, China, we argue that destroying and replacing the free gifts of nature can be an economic benefit.

not even mentioning automated robots that are being designed to do this


so ...you aren't very intellectual
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