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Comment by richardknop

8 years ago

Is it well understood why bee infrastructure is struggling? I was under impression causes behind bee problems are still unknown so I wouldn't connect it to climate change necessarily.

You are right that our civilization is very vulnerable because of our agriculture and food logistics being very fragile. A single really bad draught on a global scale would cause massive problems in feeding the large population we have.

I would argue that in this respect overpopulation is a bigger problem than climate change though. Instead of focusing on emissions and renewable energy there should be more focus on decreasing world population from current unsustainable level.

> I wouldn't connect [bee troubles] to climate change necessarily.

Oh, no, sorry, I wasn't - I was just saying that it was already quite wobbly and even a small push from something like climate change could topple it.