Reminds me of the way thousands of lemmings, when facing an overpopulation crisis, jump off the edge of a cliff.
What humanity is dealing with is a de facto scorched earth policy.
We'll reap what we have sown.
With any aliens far beyond, giving us the opportunity to prove we are in fact intelligent, or if we just believe our own publicity.
If we create a problem we are obliged to solve it on our own.
It occurred to me that peoples who still maintained a hunter gatherer existence until recently, such as in North America, Australia, Africa, The Polynesian, and Melanesian islands, have lived the same way for thousands of years, with complete histories passed on orally from generation to gener...

Reminds me of the way thousands of lemmings, when facing an overpopulation crisis, jump off the edge of a cliff.
What humanity is dealing with is a de facto scorched earth policy.
We'll reap what we have sown.
With any aliens far beyond, giving us the opportunity to prove we are in fact intelligent, or if we just believe our own publicity.
If we create a problem we are obliged to solve it on our own.
It occurred to me that peoples who still maintained a hunter gatherer existence until recently, such as in North America, Australia, Africa, The Polynesian, and Melanesian islands, have lived the same way for thousands of years, with complete histories passed on orally from generation to generation. Those successes have been portrayed as 'threats' to 'Civilization'.
Western Civilization claims the advent of Agriculture, (and so a greater dependence on bees) was one of the primary stepping stones in the path to 'civilization'
When metaphorically, Cain the farmer, killed Abel the Hunter.
Civilization is a social structure, not an attitude, or an ethical standpoint. We can't deal with our accelerated success. Ever since, society has been a repeated series of booms and crashes. Every time we think we have it 'worked out' during a boom, we get complacent, lose our heads and invariably crash.
In a tribal environment everyone is familiar, or has a place in or out of the tribe.
In a city of a few million, we can be overwhelmed by the multitude, and apart from knowing a few people personally, the rest are complete strangers
Now with all strangers proclaimed to be a 'threat.'
Paranoia can do strange things to a mind. Someone might be prepared to 'Jump off a cliff', if they faced something that was feared more than death. Like being chased with a chain saw, or an angry mob with sharp sticks.
A tribe can co-ordinate. A million people each going in a different direction can only lead to chaos.
We are so concerned about our own survival that we'll worry about the bees when they're