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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The "less strain on bees due to monoculture crops" thing is doubly silly. Monoculture has a lot of real problems, no need to make any up. Increasing crop diversity reduces the need for fertilizers, poisons, and reduces risk of plant diseases running rampant. Reducing our usage of chemicals for agriculture would help save the actual bees!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That was my biggest gripe of the text, "bees do poorly" translates directly to "it's unnatural because it's unbalanced".

People: we can have progress, and a beautiful world of living companions on this blue spaceship as well. There is no other place like it! I say that as an engineer who enjoys the hell out of his job!