I came to say something similar. If we stopped spraying everything with herbicide, pesticide, and fungicide we wouldn't have a pollinator problem. We need to stop trying to subdue mother nature to our will and work with her.

We need less people. As with livestock, the more of a crop or animal you pack into close proximity the higher the chance one disturbance or sickness wipes out everything which is what makes those chemicals a necessity. Unfortunately you can't feed this many peoples demand without superfarming.

Make less people, decrease demand, and if we aren't able to make less people we should make these people less wasteful and consumptive

> Unfortunately you can't feed this many peoples demand without superfarming.

There is a growing contingent of farmers proving this statement to be false by producing more on the same land with minimal use of fertilizer or biocides.

There are solitary bees (leafcutter bees, carpenter bees, etc.) that can still pollinate and who do not suffer from colony collapse.

But from diversity loss (that biodiversity one ;) and pesticides

We are fucked anyways. In my area we just had no rain for more than a month (where usually there should be 12 rainy days) with basically drought coming - nobody even noticed, they were busy with more important things I guess

Local weather stories hardly mean we're fucked. It snowed and hailed in Tucson yesterday. Does that mean we're all saved?

It's not about the weather, it's about how detached we are from the world

Ah, okay. I misinterpreted what you were saying.

They are definitely an indication of where we're headed if it's been a trend. Is this the first dry March in a while or the dryest March in a series of gradual dryer ones over the poster's lifetime?