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Anthropogenic Planetary Destruction (not a climate change thread)
Planet Destruction or Planetary Destruction is still over the top. The Earth will abide whatever we do that doesn't involve lots of atomic bombs.
In the Owen Sound market last fall, I was talking to a bee keeper from Clarksburg, near my country home, Spirits' Den. He advised that in that year alone, he had lost 40% of his bees. This is going on around the world - did you watch the documentary I posted in this thread on "Colony Collapse Disorder?
It will not stop, as long as the killing agents continue to be used. The honey bee will become an endangered species.
Maybe not gone, but lots of nature is not going to get pollinated. Already there are articles on crops not being sufficiently pollinated, or pollinated at all, due to the bee shortage now.
It may typically depend greatly on one's political bent what one chooses to believe is a conspiracy.
When Greenpeace succeeded in unfuroughling a banner on the parliment buildings in Ottawa, Conservatives suspected the NDP of being behind it. Last night, I heard someone suggest on a radio station that Harper and the Conservatives staged the recent security breach in B.C., around the PM (two protesters holding pro-climate change signs in the middle of a long North American cold snap seems fishy, along with the fact they were quickly released, one might think). Personally I believe either accusation could easily be true.
For anyone who thinks conspiring on at least a local level is a rare occurance, I've got a bridge in New Jersey to sell them:
Something to think about next time one is delayed in traffic (sorry to be off-topic again, but I couldn't resist such a story coming out so soon after my quoted post).
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer
Some things one website (that I found right after I googled, dated from May last year) says that probably aren't killing honey bees (Monsanto and cell phones [the latter among my favourite things to suspect/loath] are among them):
- a concerning, interesting and informative article.
Bob A
Maybe I didn't wait long enough, but I couldn't read the article after clicking on the link and waiting for the relevant text to show. Meanwhile, here's a link discussing illegal logging in Mexico (the Monarch butterfly's winter home) as a threat to these beautiful insects; is it in fact the main threat?? If so, there may be more/less hope for them than some think:
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