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A small but great example of this is how there’s was this huge freak out out the bee population declining but then next to no one heard about the new population recovery. 1/4
The reason this example is on my mind is I was at a housing policy meeting recently and there was this environmentalist citing bees as why we can’t allow new neighborhoods and so I showed her charts about the bee pop recovering. You’d think she’d have loved that news but… 2/4
She was actually mad about it. And I think it was because I was implicitly arguing against her worldview.
That’s where I think there’s a bigger lesson. Negativity bias breeds NIMBYism. If every change is bad, why allow change?
If modernity sucks, why lean into the future? 3/4
If you want to encourage a culture of progress, you have to point out over and over again that we have it great today compared to the past (and there are hundreds, if not thousands of examples of that).
And people in 2070 will have it even better than we do. @jasoncrawford 4/4
https://x.com/GaryWinslett/status/1852509596256006156?t=7jzYo3BudIEuwD5vxvJqkQ&s=19
🐝There are over 20,700 species of bees around the world.
🍯But only less than 4% produce honey
🟥What types of bees exist? Out of the 20,000 different species of bees, 250 are bumblebees, 500-600 are stingless bees, and 7 are honeybees. The remainder are the solitary bees.
(Check this link)
https://x.com/BeeAsMarine/status/1632800090023686144?t=RzW9I3hHqemgbLaPjSU_cg&s=19
If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different ...
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