In my view, intelligence is measured as the quality of response to any given situation. Or the ability to think in a "new" way about a problem, and find a workable solution.
Unfortunately humans are more likely to sacrifice intelligent responses for those which bring more monetary gain, or which cost less financially. And such solutions are not always the intelligent ones.
And then of course there are pressures from all sides from huge multi-national companies who take monetary gain and the sacrifice of intelligent responses to another level.
Like LPC says, the effects can't be known until a few years have passed. But already we can see birds are badly affected. It is obvious to me that anything which goes through the food chain affects humans. Do the companies care? My guess is no, they don't. Not while they are managing to make money.
That is the opposite of intelligence!
We are already finding out that neonicotinoid pesticides are depleting acetylcholine in the bees' brains. The bees get dementia and lose their cognitive abilities. They get lost, confused, can't navigate, can't find their way home....etc
Low levels of acetylcholine have been linked to the development of dementia in humans. I wouldn't be surprised if these cases, in bees as well as humans, had the same cause.
Unfortunately humans are more likely to sacrifice intelligent responses for those which bring more monetary gain, or which cost less financially. And such solutions are not always the intelligent ones.
And then of course there are pressures from all sides from huge multi-national companies who take monetary gain and the sacrifice of intelligent responses to another level.
Like LPC says, the effects can't be known until a few years have passed. But already we can see birds are badly affected. It is obvious to me that anything which goes through the food chain affects humans. Do the companies care? My guess is no, they don't. Not while they are managing to make money.
That is the opposite of intelligence!
We are already finding out that neonicotinoid pesticides are depleting acetylcholine in the bees' brains. The bees get dementia and lose their cognitive abilities. They get lost, confused, can't navigate, can't find their way home....etc
Low levels of acetylcholine have been linked to the development of dementia in humans. I wouldn't be surprised if these cases, in bees as well as humans, had the same cause.
