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Vanity Project

Look lovely between the trees, sure it is Lesser Celandine/Pilewort.

Yes, strangely though, I never see them at this location,

Response to myself in relation to a statement about Pollinators, I never see any insects in the Kildalton college grounds as the College grounds are completely covered in Glyphosate and other Pesticides, there is a lack of natural life there, basically it is poisoned ground.

Because the Irish government is so corrupt (basically sells the country to the highest bidder), no carcinogenic products will be banned here, as the politicians work for large businesses/corporations before and after they enter office, servants of non-human entities masquerading as servants of humanity.

Large corporations work towards the VALUE CHAIN, value goes to the Shareholders. No large business is human in nature, they all operate under Groupthink as a collective. Ireland is completely dominated by large corporations that have Continuity of Government, as each politician in Ireland works for their own interests for a very short time, whereas Corporations exist in continuity and their policies can last for decades against a politician who may last merely a year in office.

Adding References (4/2/2021)

PNAS (2018), Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees
www.pnas.org/content/115/41/10305

Guardian (2019), Pesticide widely used in US particularly harmful to bees, study finds
www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/06/us-pesticide-...

Heard, M et al (2017), Comparative toxicity of pesticides and environmental contaminants in bees
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969716...

Zhu (2017), Synergistic toxicity and physiological impact of pesticides on honey bee
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone...

Botias, C (2017), Quantifying exposure of wild bumblebees to mixtures of agrochemicals in agricultural and urban landscapes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749116...

BBC (2019), Why 500 million bees have died in Brazil in three months
www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-49406369

Endless studies and papers to illustrate this. The Botias paper is very relevant as it shows that agricultural land is very detrimental to wild bees and other pollinators, far worse than urban exposure. I call this image Vanity Project, for the simple reason of planting a few plants for pollinators withing 100s of acres of agricultural land is vanity.

Taken in: Ireland / Leinster / Sandpits Cross Roads (show map)

Taken on: March 31, 2020

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