This site outlines the problem, and one of the possible causes of the drastic decline in bee populations world wide.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3545166/
This sort of news highlighting our incompatibility with nature really scares me, I feel helpless and that humankind is in trouble so deep it cannot help itself anymore. Does anyone here think humankind will give up cell phones and wifi anytime soon?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3545166/
This sort of news highlighting our incompatibility with nature really scares me, I feel helpless and that humankind is in trouble so deep it cannot help itself anymore. Does anyone here think humankind will give up cell phones and wifi anytime soon?
Woman vs. Cow
People like to blame humanity for a lot of nature's ails, but there are a million ways for nature to kick its own ass.
Viruses are a biggy. Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Forest Fires from lightnight, comets, etc. I think humanity has an inflated opinion of how important we are in all of nature.
Indication to dumbass motherfuckers, that there's more important stuff than mineral water and Dolce and Gabbana night robes, (which touch and feel that shit in comfoortable excess fluids, with pussy all up in yer face, is hard ta' beat)..!, you'd be all pissed the fuck off just as Mr. Bee is.......Room to buzz on the pollen, baby.....
http://www.videosift.com/video/Flower-pollinaton-endangered-as-bee-populations-decrease
http://www.videosift.com/video/An-Unfinished-Story-Colony-Collapse-Disorder
People like to blame humanity for a lot of nature's ails, but there are a million ways for nature to kick its own ass.
Viruses are a biggy. Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Forest Fires from lightnight, comets, etc. I think humanity has an inflated opinion of how important we are in all of nature.
That kind of attitude is the same reason most of the world is still sitting on it's hands while huge swathes of biospheres are disappearing.
Am fairly convinced that I have seen things in the wild I know my grand children will not.
>> ^Doc_M:
People like to blame humanity for a lot of nature's ails, but there are a million ways for nature to kick its own ass.
Viruses are a biggy. Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Forest Fires from lightnight, comets, etc. I think humanity has an inflated opinion of how important we are in all of nature.
That kind of attitude is the same reason most of the world is still sitting on it's hands while huge swathes of biospheres are disappearing.
Am fairly convinced that I have seen things in the wild I know my grand children will not.
Recognition of relative insubstantiality is no excuse for abuse. We are still the stewards of the Earth. No argument there. I just see people panic and overestimate their effect and their ability to control an eco- and geological system as complicated and enormous as this planet. Smells a bit too much like fear-politics to me.
As for the possibility of overpopulation? America fortunately has a pretty low concentration of people in general. Canada even more so. And we're not really growing that fast, numbers-wise. China's laws will likely decrease its crowding eventually. Japan is relatively stagnant, as is western Europe. My population concerns would have to focus on India, Africa, and perhaps Arab and Persian nations. Not sure about those last two... or Russia. Would have to research it. Perhaps rising energy costs will encourage urbanization and less sprawl. Building projects in a good number of global cities is booming at the moment. See Dubai, Chicago, NYC... and quite a number of Arab/Persian cities or so I'm told. It's harder to get information for those in English.
BTW, the suspect honeybee virus is called Israel Acute Paralysis Virus. "IAPV was first described in 2004 in Israel (21), where infected bees presented with shivering wings, progressed to paralysis, and then died outside the hive." There are several pockets of it in America, Canada, France, and Israel.
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full/82/13/6209?view=long&pmid=18434396
Soooo, you can feel ok about your Cell phone for now. Save that fear at least for cancer. lol.
I personally think you might be able to blame Nextel as my hunch is their bands would be more harmful to bees.
Also the bee colony problem happens in rural places, but that could be an argument for why high power cell towers are used. What makes the whole argument stupid is that TV broadcasts are much stronger, so until I see a study claiming a specific EM frequency that is a problem, then I'll assume virus, mite, etc. (Now birds and butterflies on the other hand...)