> But with the Asian threat and - at least in the US - significant > colony collapse disorder(s), there may be little choice in the matter > long-run.
The Japanese honeybee is not resistant to CCD. > The same is probably true for the newest Asian immigrants (hornets). > It is relatively unlikely that a few punctuated incidents will be > enough to create an on-going problem. But, it is possible. The Asian Hornet is not an immigrant, it was shipped by humans. And the large numbers suggest it was "helped"... > Here, we agree. But there will necessarily be ongoing, widespread > disagreement on which activities are useful and which are harmful. I > keep returning to this idea of how to distinguish between useful and > harmful activities in my thinking. This seems to me to be the crux of > the problem, and I see no easy solutions to it. Much of the time any > given activity will be both useful and harmful. So, it becomes a > question of how to balance the good with the bad in particular > situations/circumstances/products. "Free" Trade is useful to a few rich greedheads and harmful to everyone else, so the interest in stopping it (or not) is pretty obvious... The crux is rather the power distribution... Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
