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Just to get things out in the open, who am I?  I am no one of importance.  No vast education, no pile of wealth.  There is something, however; an opinion and an omonous feeling.  I see this colapse of the bees as a symptom of larger things looming on the horizon for the inhabitants of Planet Earth.

Global warming, the uncontrolled pollution of our atmosphere and oceans, unbridaled greed; can we be sure that these are all seperate things and have nothing to do with each other?  I cannot believe that.  As a species, we have to have a paradigm shift if we wish to inhabit a planet that is hospitible to us.  We may even be effecting the local 'steller neighborhood' as well  with what we are doing.  We need to stop.  How?  Like I said earlier, Im not THAT smart.

I do think that the bees are another 'canary in the coal mine' that's trying to scream out a warning that we may not be smart enough to hear.

posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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