#vanishingpoints

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Thinking about climate change, we often see rather worn-out clichés in front of our eyes – drastic images of scorched deserts, dried waters, burning forests. Feeding on – still pretty and spectacular pictures – we imagine cataclysms caused by rapid changes in weather conditions, not realizing that the effects of climate change are already being felt around us to a greater extent than we could expect. However, it is difficult to notice the problem in its spectrum without proper mindfulness and sensitivity to the microprocesses taking place in the immediate environment.

In the context of pollinators and their strategic importance for the ecosystem, we must be particularly sensitive to the problems faced by breeders, farmers, scientists or ecologists – there is currently practically no apiary in Poland that has not been hit by diseases or parasites that negatively affect the condition of bees and increasing their mortality. Diseases we are responsible for spreading. We just have to look closer.

Thinking about an ecosystem as something like a constellation – a system of interconnected points, the joint connection of which creates a specific image, is appropriate and convenient on the condition that we know what image a given constellation is supposed to create. Otherwise, we connect the points chaotically and accidentally, which ultimately can give an image straight from sensational thrillers, in which the main character, immersed in a months-long investigation, at the climax stands in front of a wall with a thoroughly analyzed “truth” in the form of a chaotic tangle of connections in which every detail is of the utmost importance.

Well, unfortunately – when it comes to the unknown in the form of climate change, which surprises us more and more often, it looks like this more and more often.

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