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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by bhnmmhmd on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:01PM (#16943826)
I understand this is an important decision by EU, but I just can't fathom the reason this news got so upvoted here on HN. Am I missing something? Can anyone elaborate on this?
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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by tom_mellior on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:41PM (#16944112)
Insects, bees especially, pollinate plants. Without pollination many plants do not reproduce. Without plants reproducing, humans starve. Killing all the bees is therefore a bad idea amounting to collective suicide. Many people here on HN care about not being killed.
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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by phil248 on Friday April 27, 2018 @05:08PM (#16944335)
The bee problem was a huge mystery for a lot of years and got a ton of press until researchers finally figured out that - Surprise! - it was all the literal poisons we saturate our landscapes with that was killing them of.
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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by gascan on Friday April 27, 2018 @05:39PM (#16944581)
The literal insect poisons, specifically.
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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by ThurmaUman on Friday April 27, 2018 @07:02PM (#16945104)
It's probably the hope that it would generating conversation about new discoveries rather than drawing out the loonies (which is all it has done).
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