[rational-future]

>> 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.

[13thLetter]

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?

[anon1385]

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....

[icebraining]

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.