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RE: Thoughts on Bees (Ben Falk's) Honeybee Democracy by Thomas Seeley
This books sounds like a real bummer. What a shame. We need to start acting from a place of knowing that we are nature... not an independent thing outside of it, or that it is to be dominated and used. Especially looking at the forms of cooperation in nature, that it is not all "survival of the fittest" as we have come to understand it.
Just came across this article that feels relevant - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/23/paul-kingsnorth-imagine-how-land-feels
I read it and it is not a bummer. Seeley loves bees and developed tremendous insight into how bees communicate and make decisions collectively. He comes across as a very gentle person without a mean bone in his body.
In his more recent book about finding wild bee colonies he explains how he feels sorry for all of the bee colonies that he destroyed in his early work. Everyone looked at the natural world differently back then and his views about the right way to study bees have evolved.
Now he just finds wild bee trees and hives the swarms that issue from them.
Glad that he has changed his ways! Thanks for the update.