It's everyone's Beezneez...
I've been reading and hearing in the local media a lot lately about the bee populations in this country being severely diminished by an as yet unknown disease, or diseases. The preliminary name for the phenomenon is Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD. What's also strange is, I didn't see a post about this on the usual sites but via a media TV station I watch locally here in the Bay Area for nightly news. I guess it's possible I missed the post about the bees on boingboing which is where I would've expected to see a post like this but why isn't anyone else freaking out yet?
Probably because we all still have food in the form of fruits, vegetables, flowers for Valentine's Day, etc. Well, if the bee problem doesn't get resolved soon and the massive amounts of bees dying or disappearing continues and escalates, we're all gonna be a lot closer to having to eat Soylent Green people crackers rather soon folks.
Has everyone just gone to sleep? Is it all of that prescribed medication? Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in a horrible Orwellian daytime nightmare novel and Aldus Huxley is my roommate and he's trying to keep me hepped up on goofballs so that I won't actually care about what is really going on around me. And then I pop back into reality and realize that maybe the nightmare is better than having no bees, no honey, no almonds, no fruit, basically about 2/3rd of our food supply.
The bee problem should be agenda item #1 for a lot more people than it is right now. The whole bee population issue could be a great novel idea too. What happens to the world when the bee colonies start dying? Is it a bellweather or the international canary in a coalmine? What will it take for people to wake up and realize that things are starting to go crappy right now? Not in our children's generation...
