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Vanishing Honeybees Will Affect Future Crops
daninbusiness writes "Across the US, beekeepers are finding that their bees are disappearing — not returning while searching for nectar and pollen. This could have a major impact on the food industry in the United States, where as much as $14 billion worth of agriculture business depends on bees for crop pollination. Reasons for this problem, dubbed 'colony collapse disorder,' are still unknown. Theories include viruses, some type of fungus, poor bee nutrition, and pesticides."
That...or more likely eaten by the engines of his jet as he flies across the world to spread the information in his slides.
Sucked in....and Al Gore, two things I don't want to really relate together.
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Why is everything that doesn't go according to our plan labeled a disorder? Boys are no longer restless; they're ADD. We don't get the winter doldrums; we suffer from Seasonal-Affective Disorder. Gulf War vets don't get shell-shock; they get Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I don't move in my sleep; I have Restless Leg Syndrome. And now bees get Colony Collapse Disorder.
Judging by all these labels, one would think the entire universe were machined to such high tolerances it couldn't handle these deviations from someone's definition of the ideal. And yet somehow the world survived for thousands of years before it developed its affinity for labeling everything a disorder. That's the real monoculture to be concerned with, a society that believes only one personality type is desirable.
Maybe one day people will stop making these lame jokes, and we can stop wasting our mod points
I applaud anyone who helps push this crap below my viewing threshold.
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