I really appreciated this story, thanks for posting. A nugget of information I found particularly useful is the research showing that plants respond almost instantly to bees by producing more nectar.
If you know what I normally write about, it is about fixing the human induced energy problem of Earth, it is much more acute than most folk seem to realise, and yet the fix is much more simple than most folk seem to realise... the fix is to become like trees or plants, replicating what they do in society, by issuing money on the Joules received by solar farms, similarly as happens within plants, by the plant issuing nutrients in response to the Joules on its leaves.
By that, we see a clear lifecycle of the plant in terms of energy, it starts by taking an energy overdraft from Earth, before it forms leaves, until it forms leavees, the physical Joules of energy that it needs to grow in this time is withdrawn from Earth, the direction of flow of energy is upwards, the opposite of the direction from sun to Earth.
After the leaves form, the plant then starts to pay back its tiny energy overdraft, thousands of times over, whilst it grows and lives as an adult.
Viewed like this, we might notice all the energy we ever produced by fossil fuels, or indeed even from things like wave power, wind and hydro, have all been at net cost of Joules from the sun originally put to use on Earth by nature.
Like this we might see Earth is a kind of battery, of life, which is all energy put to use on Earth, the problem is that all the energy we've put to use to date resulted in more energy being lost from Earth than we could put to use.
All of that changes when we move completely to solar, and start to issue money to reflect the Joules of sunlight being received by all solar facilities already. Historically this amounts to a large amount of money in all developed countries, hundreds of billions, accumulating since around 2005.
Payment of that money as UBI would solve all the problems of job security of individuals, business security of organisations, energy security of countries, actually pretty much all problems we are seeing.
The problem is that the standard investor does not wish to forfeit what they think they might have by the value of the capital they currently have, even it is only a pension.
Maybe the bees response of plants provides an analogy of something we might do to trigger a new mentality in investors, to wish to invest in solar stimulus, or solar UBI, who knows, this could be key to overcoming the current resistance we see in investors to the new way of enriching the planet, the opposite of impoverishing the planet, by stealing all its energy, discharging it, instead we have to charge it, fast :)
