REFLECTIONS

During another restless sleepless night as I lay there worrying about bee's all I could do was think about the steep learning curve beekeepers have to take. Not only that but the amount of mistakes they make. Bees do NOT need us, we need them. The latest research I read stated that beatles are apparently more important pollinator than bees, so that put paid to my belief that I was actually doing some good on a daily basis running an apiary. The UK is the dirty man of Europe, with the worst environmental record of any country in the now defunct 'bloc'. The world is a global entity, it is not a series of countries any more, what it actually is is a planet of corporations with more net worth than countries themselves. Do not be in denial about what is going on in this planet. We have no control anymore and Sir David Attenborough might love nature and brought us wonderful documentaries, but he has seen more of the natural world than any other human. Humans believe they will colonize another planet. I will call this out right now. We do not have the technology to do this. Perhaps that is the sole reason mankind is pursuing AI at such a rapid pace. The exponential growth of machine learning is perhaps the only key to the energy crisis, because mankind is totally reliant on oil, and oil has caused all the existential problems we as a species face. Change is very difficult, it is painful, arduous and stressful and I witness it every day when I go out for a walk and look at human activity and the insanity that IS human behaviour. We are not logical creatures, we are driven by ego and history.

And what have we actually learned from History?

My greatest problem this year is the volume of honey I have in a highly competitive shrinking market. Business is all about scale and there are always bigger predators in the market place.

You can dream as much as you wish, but the future really is bleak as mankind continues to fight over resources. There is no such thing as FREE. Free enterprise is a myth, because we never cost the damage we collectively do to the planet. " He's been all over the world " people say about me, well, foolishly I chased dreams, like most of us, because after all what else is there? We are but mere humans. Fallible.

At the age of 23 I decided I would never have children, a decision made responsibly based on my simple human personal history, and the lies that made me who I was. Ethics cannot be bought and sold, we believe they can but we are tied to rulemakers in a complicated world of rulebreakers.

Sadly with bee's I am reaching the end of one road and I hope to start another, but I can only do this with help.

Everyone attempts to rise to the challenge of life, but remember folks, we only have one planet, one life, one existance that sadly seems to be dicated by one thing. Money.

What choices are you making daily? Can you change? Do you want to change and does it matter?

Personally, the greatest challenge I face is the pursuit of happiness, which a rich farmer friend of mine once sad was the abstinence of desire, so perhaps Karl Kehrle was right.

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