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>> addressing the underlying cause of the leak

There are problem causes that are very hard to address. E.g. alcohol consumption causing a lot of traffic accidents.

Or massive corporations, with huge lobbying budgets, releasing toxins in the environment. Toxins that cause no obvious harm, but kill a lot of bees or cause cancer in some humans after 20 years of exposure.



Can you be more specific about what these toxins are, and how it's known that they kill bees or cause cancer over a period of twenty years?


In the case of neonicotinoids and honeybees recent research suggests it disrupts their ability to navigate back to the hive: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....


Do they actually die as a result, or just continue living somewhere else? Because if the problem is just that beekeepers lose them, that doesn't seem so bad as if it actually decimated them.




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