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Editor’s note: Fleming wrote this content before his death in 2010. In 2013 the European Union, pending the outcome of further research into the impacts on pollinators, voted for a two-year EU-wide moratorium on the use of three of the five neonicotinoids, including imidacloprid, on flowering crops attractive to bees. See, e.g., Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, “‘Victory for bees’ as European Union bans neonicotinoid pesticides blamed for destroying bee population”, The Independent, 29 April 2013.

In July 2015 120-day emergency derogations from the ban were issued to specific areas in England due to oilseed rape crops threatened by the flea beetle. See, e.g., “Ban lifted on controversial ‘neonic’ pesticide”, BBC News, 23 July 2015, available at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33641646 .

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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