Ok, so this is my new "issue of interest" (of course that doesn't mean I have forgotten about Global Warming...)
Anyway, have you heard of this? Apparently, the bees are in trouble! I first heard about this last week on the news but now Bill Maher is talking about it on Jay Leno. Something is causing the poor bees to loose their sense of direction so they can't find their way home...so they starve to death! This seriously breaks my heart! I'm so sad for the poor bees!!! One theory is that cell phones are to blame. (read the article). But they don't really know 100% yet, but it doesn't even matter because SOMETHING is killing these poor bees. And do you know what it means for the rest of us when all the bees are dead? We are dead too! When the bees die, our crops will die, therefore we will have no food and the world will starve to death. Apparently Eisntein even said that if all the bees die, it will only take four years for us to run out of food and die too.
So, yeah. I'm sad because the bees are getting lost from their hives and dying. And I am worried that we will all die in four years too. (oh, and Britta found a dead bee in her room yesterday...we think it must have gotten lost and starved to death)
-Lisa
Here is another article...I think this one is even better than the first one.
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I read an article the other day about hawaiian bees, and that there's some mite that infested all of their hives and that's why those bees are dying...not sure if that's what's affecting everything though. The poor bees! And scary about what Einstein said...although I tend to think the 4 years thing isn't really that accurate, just because technology's progressed so much since he said that it seems like we'd could figure something out to prolong that a bit.
yeah meg, i agree...i think our technology could get us farther than four years without bees...but it's still sad that all the poor bees are dying.
:(
lisa
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