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I think we will work around problems for as long as we can - honeybees were a prime example. We have eliminated most pollinating species, so we should have felt the effects of that already. Out food production should be fucked. But it's not - instead pollinating was turned into a business and now farmers rely on "renting" bees from people who raise them controlled environments - in pollinating season whole hives are brought in on trucks and then taken somewhere else afterwards.

Effect? A regular customer has absolutely no idea that this is happening. Zero. And I imagine we will keep doing that with everything else, working around the issues for as long as we can. It won't be 30 years before we realize how fucked we are.




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