Einstein was right. When the bees go, we all go. Bees are going. I was watching Bill Maher last night already after getting rid of my cell phone, begun the use of canvas bags, and not using insecticide in my garden. He said something that caught me, he had said it once before but I must not have been listening. "If getting rid of your remote and humping your fat ass off the couch to change the channel would get rid of global warming, would you do it?" I would. But it scares me that so many people still refuse to take action toward living a more natural life style and prefer the alternative. Many of the foods we eat can only be pollinated by bees, and it's a very scary thing to think that if they go, we all do. Bees wont fly near cell phones, and they're already dying in mass numbers. I can't remember if it was this community or another that someone made a post about how the bees are going, and this is mostly a rant. It's just interesting to me how something that means so much, gets so little respect. It's spring here in Alaska right now, the leaves aren't out yet, but it's warm enough. All the snow is gone, and what's left but not begun to degrade? Plastic Grocery bags by the hundreds.
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Bees
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Since we're talking about this in real life, I might as well lay my two cents down here as well. I don't think problems with the bees, and plastic bags, and so many other things are as centralized in the media, (the other night on NBC the ONLY story they had was Virginia tech, but that's a whole other set of issues I have) and the average person won't do anything about it unless it conveniences them and is cheap. People like to use NEW plastic bags every time they go to the grocery store because its easier then using cloth bags, and they don't feel "Embarrassed" about it. I think people don't change because change is hard, AND we live in a world of instant gratification. We spend more on a crappy tv dinner to save time now... but have to work more later to pay for it. We want something we can't afford, so we buy it now and pay it off later. We eat non-organic and processed foods to save money now, and pay more in health care later. We use a new plastic bag every time we go to the grocery store to save the hassle of remembering the cloth ones, and we'll pay for it later.And as for the bees, when they go there's something like 4 years till we do. "Mass colony deaths are already occurring, where a queen or two and a few immature workers are left"
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...and horses.There's a field next to my house with about 4 or 5 beautiful horses and a couple of mules. As I was leaving my house today, they were just letting the horses out of the barn. Know what horses do when you let them out of the barn? They run. And there is not much more amazing to watch than horses running just for the love of running. I had to sit there for a few minutes and watch them before I left.I personally don't buy into all this global warming hype. But I am sure that human's lack of responsibility toward the natural world in which we live compromises much. Including bees and horses.
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the thing about bees, is that they pollinate some of our foods that can only be pollinated by bees. We don't even know if they're dying off due to something like global warming (i highly doubt it's from global warming).