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laodan discovered 10 months ago- Stung. Where have all the bees gone? in The New Yorker by Elizabeth Kolbert
Among the many possible contributing factors that the report cited are habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change, and introduced pathogens. May Berenbaum, a professor of entomology at the University of Illinois, chaired the National Research Council panel; she recently characterized C.C.D. as "a crisis on top of a crisis." "We can't count on wild pollinators, because we've so altered the landscape that many are no longer viable" she said. As the National Research Council report noted, invertebrate extinctions don't tend to have much "marquee appeal". Yet if it's a bad sign when an ecosystem loses its large mammals, it is probably an even worse sign when it can no longer support its insects. The report put it this way: "Pollinator decline is one form of global change that actually does have credible potential to alter the shape and structure of the terrestrial world." Stung. Where have all the bees gone? ILLUSTRATION: ARNOLD ROTH The conclusion of the US National Research Council panel on CCD could not be more on the mark: "Pollinator decline is one form of global change that actually does have credible potential to alter the shape and structure of the terrestrial world." In other words modernity and its ideology of rationality have fucked up with their godly games! And it seems that the best we can do now is simply to observe where and how modernity's induced global change is driving the principle of life. What we assist at is not the demise of the principle of life on earth. But in all probability humanity shall pay a heavy price in the form of: - or the collapse of its present-day societal stage of evolution: civilizational collapse. - or what could even be worse (for us I mean) the extinction of the specie as a whole. Blind followers of the ideology of rationality and the servicemen of science shall want to "counter-act" the consequences of that global change. Those apostles of rationality are already busy preparing "terra-forming" projects meant to save us from what they un-leached. And they would now like us to think about them as our saviors. Technology is going to take care of all our ills is it not? But how long will we continue to take this kind of bullshit? And more importantly how are we going to behave collectively once a lot more people start to understand that modernity has really fucked up? That's the real question of importance I guess.
- Stung. Where have all the bees gone? in The New Yorker by Elizabeth Kolbert
- cyber9 rated 8 months ago
- A very good read about the plight of our bees. I find it a fascinating story to follow. More to come, Im sure.
- dgirlp rated 10 months ago
- No one knew whether colony-collapse disorder was caused by disease, mites, toxins, or cell phones, but some keepers had reportedly lost seventy per cent of their bees. dgirlp: i continue to be fascinated by this subject - here is yet another article on the bees. thanks http://laodan.stumbleupon.com/
