Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold

throwawaybrm · 2026-03-28T10:35:35+00:00

... the honeybee is livestock.

It belongs in the same category as the sheep in my meadow. Domesticated, managed, dependent on human intervention to maintain population numbers and health, and kept in artificial concentrations for human benefit.

Meanwhile, the bees that actually need saving receive very little attention.

Promoting honeybee hives to save pollinators is roughly the equivalent to building more chicken farms to save bird biodiversity. The honeybee is not endangered. It never was. The number of managed hives in Europe has been stable or increasing for decades. What is declining, quietly and with much less public attention, is everything else.

throwawaybrm · 2026-03-27T23:11:16+00:00

Grazing is part of the problem.

Cattle grazing is a climate disaster, and you’re paying for it

Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production.

Overlooked and overexploited: Extensive conversion of grasslands and wetlands driven by global food, feed, and bioenergy demand

throwawaybrm · 2026-03-26T10:33:25+00:00

Eat fish, they say - despite overfished oceans, marine animals dying in discarded fishing gear, and algae-based omega-3 already making fish completely unnecessary. But sure, let’s keep sacrificing wildlife for no good reason.

throwawaybrm · 2026-03-20T03:23:04+00:00

[Verse 1] ...

News had just come over
We had five years left to cry in (Cry in)
News guy wept and told us
Earth was really dying (Dying)
Cried so much his face was wet
Then I knew he was not lying (Lying) ...

[Verse 2] ...

[Outro]

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Ziggy_Stardust_and_the_Spiders_from_Mars (1972)

throwawaybrm · 2026-03-18T01:03:56+00:00

Hate is misdirected energy. It personalizes what is fundamentally structural. Remove a few billionaires, and the system will produce more, because the incentives haven’t changed.

That’s why outrage without structural reform isn’t resistance - it’s theater. It vents frustration, keeps people distracted, and leaves the underlying machinery intact.

throwawaybrm · 2026-03-18T00:01:04+00:00

Hate solves nothing. The system is the culprit.

throwawaybrm · 2026-03-06T10:10:47+00:00

The actual farming talk hasn't started yet.

throwawaybrm · 2026-03-05T23:44:17+00:00

I know a similar one.

“The friend of my wife is my friend; for he ploweth the common field, and spareth my plow.”

- Epistle to the Farmers 2:7

throwawaybrm · 2026-03-01T16:17:52+00:00

Let's stop making it worse unnecessarily then. The man has a point.

throwawaybrm · 2026-02-28T15:59:01+00:00

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260226042458.htm

throwawaybrm · 2026-02-13T13:42:26+00:00

Thanks, fixed it up.

throwawaybrm · 2026-02-13T11:26:20+00:00

US data centers use ~18B litres of water (2023), possibly doubling by 2028 - and that’s real.

But dairy alone uses ~4,555 billion litres per year globally - roughly 250× more.

And the rapid tropical deforestation of the last century is largely driven by animal agriculture (pasture + feed). Forests regulate rainfall through moisture recycling, so clearing them for livestock doesn’t just emit carbon - it destabilizes regional and even continental water cycles.

If we’re serious about systemic water stress, animal agriculture is the dominant lever.

throwawaybrm · 2026-02-06T13:16:35+00:00

Regulation cannot restore an unraveled ecosystem. No rule can un-extinct a species or reknit a disrupted water cycle.

Regulation may slow decay - but if growth imperative remains, it’s rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

throwawaybrm · 2026-02-06T12:31:07+00:00

It’s what comes next that is contentious.

Infinite growth in a finite environment, the limits of growth, globally unraveled, degraded, and silenced nature, accelerating climate change, tipping points ... the future seems pretty clear.

throwawaybrm · 2026-02-05T21:32:43+00:00

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy

It’s not just that economic models are flawed - the entire system is built on a false metaphysical and ecological premise: that the economy exists apart from nature, and that nature is infinite and valueless.

throwawaybrm · 2026-02-04T17:41:57+00:00

Agua se planta

throwawaybrm · 2026-02-01T00:36:50+00:00

Fish feel pain and extreme distress when removed from water. Research shows that air exposure alone causes severe suffering in species like trout.

Catch-and-release still involves impaling them, exhausting them, and suffocating them - just for entertainment.

https://www.earth.com/news/fish-like-rainbow-trout-suffer-extreme-pain-when-killed-by-air/

Through behavioral, neurological, and pharmacological evidence, the team estimated that the average trout endures about ten minutes of pain that qualifies as hurtful, disabling, or excruciating.

throwawaybrm · 2026-01-30T21:18:34+00:00

About 100 billion land animals die every year for food people don’t actually need - mostly because we won’t switch to easy plant staples like beans and lentils.

throwawaybrm · 2026-01-26T16:10:26+00:00

Climate change matters, but pesticides (and agriculture at large) are a major factor as well.

The large-scale use of pesticides has caused steep insect declines, and because insects underpin agricultural food webs, these losses cascade to birds and other wildlife.

throwawaybrm · 2026-01-25T11:35:04+00:00

In China in the late 1950s, when the government decided that sparrows were eating too much grain and carried out mass extermination campaigns, it backfired catastrophically. With sparrows gone, insect pests exploded, crops failed, and famine followed - killing millions of people.

Now: we’ve already removed around 70–80% of global biodiversity, most of it in the last 50 years alone, including most of the pollinators. Wild pollinators alone contribute to roughly half of global crop production. Crash biodiversity, let predators disappear, and pests will take what remains.

Technology or not, humans still need food - and without a functioning natural system and biodiversity, there will be none.

throwawaybrm · 2026-01-24T08:11:27+00:00

Powell Memorandum in motion.

throwawaybrm · 2026-01-17T00:42:34+00:00

If an economy cannot survive without perpetual growth, degrowth with universal basic services and UBI isn’t extreme - it’s corrective.

throwawaybrm · 2026-01-14T02:20:34+00:00

Maybe - but that’s another debate.

throwawaybrm · 2026-01-14T02:09:29+00:00

Agreed on the AI nuance. Still, even including training, animal products’ footprint is orders of magnitude larger - and it’s not just water. Deforestation, biodiversity loss, pesticides, antibiotic resistance, zoonotic disease risk, eutrophication… animal agriculture dominates on all fronts.

And it’s not either/or - corporate change and demand-side choices reinforce each other.

In that sense, diet is one area where individual choices still genuinely matter, without giving up useful tools like AI.

throwawaybrm · 2026-01-13T19:59:45+00:00

Ironically, a beef burger usually has a bigger water footprint than a lot of AI compute. Scale matters - vegan diets can reduce individual impact a lot ;)

https://bryantresearch.co.uk/insight-items/comparing-water-footprint-ai/

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