Survey: 36% of bee hives lost in U.S.

Kizzume

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-05-07-bee-hive-loss_N.htm?csp=34

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

You can partially thank cell phones and all the various signals we send through the air for why bees are not returning home. But since that makes up only 30% of the bees that are going away, we can find more realistic solutions.

I've been following this for a long time now. Very scary. During a time when corn is now being used for FUEL instead of for food, and we are suffering rice shortages throughout the world, the last thing we need is the bee population to go away. We need to focus our resources on 4 things in order to prevent MORE starvation throughout the world

1. Birth Control. BIG time. Overpopulation means overconsumption. We need to get people to please stop having babies. Not stop fucking. Just stop having babies!

2. We need to STOP ALL corn ethanol production and STOP giving government subsidies for these programs. A leader of the UN referred to corn ethanol as "A crime against humanity." Children are starving over a poor, poor energy source. Screw it. We need to stop!

3. FOR THE BEES, and our survival, we need to continue our trend toward using LESS chemicals in everything, and polluting LESS. I find it great that people think environmentalism is fashionable these days. BUT, that isn't enough. We need to get our government to do more, and we also need to put pressure on OTHER governments to do more.

4. FOR THE BEES, do you have any idea where a HUGE chunk of our unregulated pollution is coming from? Our MILITARY. Our military is a HUUUUUUUUUGE polluter, using gas guzzling humvees, jets, etc. The biggest reason why we need to cut back on our war in Iraq frankly is because our military is such a terrible polluter.

If these principles were followed, the Bee population could make a comeback, and threat of starvation (as well as the thousands of children dying from it right now) could be brought to a better figure.

Kizzume · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject:

I agree with you very much on this. These are cold hard facts that a lot of people don't want to look at, but they're things that need to be done. Well said.

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Kizzume · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:08 pm Post subject:

Our military IS quite a polluter, but I don't know if that's a major reason why we should get out of Iraq.... but they are quite the polluters.

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Kizzume · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject:

One thing I think that REALLY needs to be cut back, chemically, are fragrances.

Did you know that if you stay away from scented products for a while and then come close to a manhole cover for raw sewage, you will NOT smell sewage until you first get used to the smell of fabric softener, perfumes and colognes, and laundry detergent.

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Good luck regulating perfumes. Rich people wear perfumes, and they run our government!

Kizzume · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 12:17 pm Post subject:

It's quite sad, and I doubt anything will get done about it until there is irrefutable proof that these fragrances are part of the problem, but by that time, we may be in serious trouble.