Can I name a plant ?

@BlueGreenGrey I agree. Worldwide, pollinators face many threats of dying out, their numbers are plummeting due to the use of pesticides, bad air pollution, and contaminated water (since bees drink water), and this nasty habit humans have of modifying plants to yield more monetary profit. Not to mention climate change, also directly associated with human folly.

Not catastrophizing or being fatalistic, but this is a serious matter. If all bees die...we won't last either. When all flowers and plants disappear due to the extinction of bees, sure, we could live off on fish...but only while the supply lasts, as it won't cover a worldwide demand for it ( as it is, we are overfishing, harming the natural balance of the sea).I think we can all join in the effort of trying to save the bees and by doing so, we help ourselves too.

Right? It's similar in color too!. It is indeed pretty☺

You're welcome and thank you too for your comment😊

@LilMissAnonyMOUSE we should be doing everything to protect the bees as well as planting food for any at-risk insects such as migratory monarch butterflies, not just because they are so much joy to observe and listen to, not just because they deserve to continue living unhamred on this planet every bit as much as an apex predator species like us humans (who have an outsized footprint on the global ecosystem relative to our extremely minor percentage of all life on this planet, and an outsized ability to destroy the environment relative to any other animal species), but even just practically because we still as of yet may not have discovered all of their complex interraltionships / roles within the environemnt we ourselves depend on.

I would not be opposed to outright banning the concept of a lawn in the residential housing sphere (reserving manicured turf solely for publicly-owned communual spaces such as parks and botanical gardens), both in terms of what can be planted with a space of a parcel of land not occupied by a building (so that only beneficial plants which do not require pollution to maintain are planted), as well as just limiting how big any single family housing parcel can be the first place, so that as little land is wasted as possible and more nearby wildlife habitat can be left completely undeveloped, or reclaimed and restored, where such has already been developed.

It is indeed a serious, critical matter, which rarely gets the proper attention, respect, and sustained defense that it deserves, it is not even in the minds of perhaps the majority of humans, or is actively stymied by individuals or organizations who, for example, priotize their own pursuit of profit ahead of anything else, with no thought to the future nor even to present collateral damage. There so many overlapping issues touching all of this, which all need to be addressed in paralllel. For example, as you rightly note, overfishing is indeed a global scourge, and the climate impacts of land animal agriculture like beef and dairy cattle have been well-documented for quite some time now. You are someone who truly gets this, with a superb mind capable and curious enough to thoroughly consider all of the nuances, and I appreciate the service to humanity you provide, no matter how large or small, when you take the time to highlight the importance of anything 😊

Plant-based diets for humans would be much easier to sustainably supply because plants inherently have less of an environmental footprint to begin with (at least when not grown with nefarious industrial-scale agricutlural practices contributing to problems like fertilizer runoff pollution which in turn create algal bloom dangers in waterways), and they also have a greater potential for being farmed vertically, to make the best possible use of a finite amount global land which has not yet been turned to desert by ongoing human-caused climate change (vertical farming could include both buildings, the energy needs of which hopefully in time will be sustainably supplied by any combination of fusion, wind, solar, tidal, wave or other renewable and clean energy sources, which could also simultaneously power more environmentally-safe ocean water desalination processes in the future, for as long as a global human population is not constrained to sensible limits and geographies that no longer necessitate desalination), as well as an innovative revolution in advanced agroforestry. Since supplying a plant-based diet would be much easier to sustain harmoniously with nature, this is even more reason to prioritize parallel considerations like protecting our pollinators specifically and biodiversity in general.

This is why we very much need experts in these fields in some permanently protected part of global governments, not endangered by the shifting whims of whichever political party has control of the government, not demonized by people who do not actually have any clue or care about any of these things as some sort of evil "deep state" (we NEED a "deep state" that is immune to the changing of mere politicians who have no expertise in anything).

Indeed it is pretty and would be a lovely component of any thoughtfully planned non-turf, non-monocultural landscape, for both aesthetic and practical value 🪷🌿🍄🌳🐝🐞🦋🕊🦇🦎🐢🌞

I think you also should get the right to similarly choose your own preferred binomial scientiic name for it, in addition to the common name 😊 Maybe something like Dulciola mousicus? 🍭🐁🤔🤭

@BlueGreenGrey I agree with you on all points. You know, a wise man once said that humans are the worst to have lived on planet Earth. It's a fact. In the short span of time humans have existed on earth( a mere 300 thousand years compared to the dinosaurs that lived for 165 million years), we have caused more destruction to this planet than any other being to have lived here. Those who destroy do not see farther than their own backyard, they have no vision of the world as a whole, nor care what impact their destruction has for the present and future of Earth.

Manicured lawns are done for aesthetic reasons while ignoring that they are a waste of land and a waste of impressionable amounts of water to maintain them. Can we even calculate how much that is year after year?

Overfishing and catching immature fish and crustaceans is an absolute stupidity, so is wondering why there are fewer of them to catch.

Industries are those who most use up water for livestock and aquaculture, and chemical plants release toxic chemicals on rivers and again, we wonder why our water is contaminated.

We produce millions of tons of trash daily around the world, unable to keep up with recycling them, so many of them are burned, releasing toxins in the atmosphere and we wonder why respiratory disease is killing so many. Rain clouds absorb these toxins and they rain down on us.

All the plastic that ends up in the seas is killing sea animals, and guess where some of those plastic materials end up? Our stomachs as well.What goes around, comes around.

We humans have much yet to learn about sustainability and progress without putting our world in danger.

On a lighter note, ''Dulciola mousicus'' is another wonderful name for this multi-named plant😄

@LilMissAnonyMOUSE then Dulciola mousicus it must be (or another if you prefer), I shall petition the International Botanical Congress in due haste to make it official 😄

@BlueGreenGrey That would be wonderful!😄