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