The unfortunate truth about nature, is that it is not sustainable and 
never has been. Plants and animals became extinct long before mankind 
was present.

We only look at our short term period and extrapolate it backwards and 
forward as if it always was so.

 From a long term view, beekeeping is in a minor shift while nature and 
we accommodate to the change. It is not the end of the world of 
beekeeping but only another of the many transitions beekeeping has taken 
over the ages.

If we went by today's definition of sustainability, we would all be 
beelining and getting honey from trees- until someone wrote a book 
declaring that technique was not sustainable.

But today's definition is only an invention to cover the organic 
movement. Sounds good but does not stand up well to inquiry.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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