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Originally Posted by Old Town FFX
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The article says, "climate change is 100% to blame for the bumblebee crisis" and the headline on the article the article the phrase lnks to says "bumblebees get stung by climate change", but the "earthjustice" article actually says, "One reason for the massive die-off may be a lack of wildflower-rich habitats. Another may be pesticides, which have been under increased scrutiny after two scientific studies linked a commonly used corn pesticide to the die-offs of pollinating bees. And yet still another cause may be climate change, which impacts the bees’ habitat range".
So "earthjustice" uses a misleading headline that contradicts what the paragraph says, and "vocativ" apparently links "earthjustice" as a source without actually reading the paragraph. Welcome to the twitterverse.
The video blames neonicitinoids (see links I posted earlier) then admits there are probably multiple causes of CCD. Its main goal seems to be to use fear to stir up opposition to evil pesticides, but it can't get away fron the fact that we don't know what's going on with CCD. In short, "we don't know what's happening exactly but terrible things are about to happen! We have to find the bad guys! Look, there's one!"
Making public policy based on raw emotion is almost always a bad idea.
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