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The Pollinators

It looked so efficient and concentrate everythingin the ways that we've done it, but that...

It looked so efficient and concentrate everything
in the ways that we've done it, but that turns out to be
a false efficiency

Full Transcript

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It looked so efficient
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and concentrate everything in the ways that we've done it,
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but that turns out to be a false efficiency.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:44:51
Uploaded
Jun 16, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Stonykill Films

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Movie Summary

A cinematic journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat.
It is the cheapest way - The Pollinators 00:21
It is the cheapest way
You know it's the thing that we've built up - The Pollinators 00:11
You know it's the thing that we've built up
-The Industrial Revolution in the early 1900s was founded - The Pollinators 00:15
-The Industrial Revolution in the early 1900s was founded
We had more than enough people - The Pollinators 00:05
We had more than enough people
And so the emphasis in agriculture - The Pollinators 00:13
And so the emphasis in agriculture
And we've made great strides in doing that. - The Pollinators 00:04
And we've made great strides in doing that.
And as a consequence, fewer and fewer individuals - The Pollinators 00:16
And as a consequence, fewer and fewer individuals
We've evolved a system - The Pollinators 00:12
We've evolved a system
It's not healthy for the productthat's produced - The Pollinators 00:12
It's not healthy for the productthat's produced
-Well, we went down a road with agriculture, didn't we? - The Pollinators 00:06
-Well, we went down a road with agriculture, didn't we?
And that road said - The Pollinators 00:13
And that road said
If you had weeds - The Pollinators 00:17
If you had weeds
And the only way to maintain a simplified system - The Pollinators 00:05
And the only way to maintain a simplified system
Maybe it's fertilizers, maybe it's GM plants, - The Pollinators 00:09
Maybe it's fertilizers, maybe it's GM plants,
And that seems to have worked for a long time, - The Pollinators 00:08
And that seems to have worked for a long time,
Everything within the current infrastructure - The Pollinators 00:11
Everything within the current infrastructure
-In the year 2000, - The Pollinators 00:10
-In the year 2000,
And in 2006, George Bush gave a talk, - The Pollinators 00:16
And in 2006, George Bush gave a talk,
We saw massive changes here in North Dakota. - The Pollinators 00:06
We saw massive changes here in North Dakota.
Now the two predominant crops are corn and soybeans - The Pollinators 00:10
Now the two predominant crops are corn and soybeans