Can You Hear Me Now?

Tonight on "Real Time with Bill Maher" the host made a very important statement that I wanted to share with anyone reading this blog. He made mention of a quote from Albert Einstein, a figure widely considered to be one of the most intelligent humans who ever lived. Apparently, Einstein made mention of our world's dependence on bees, stating that if the bee were to disappear, then humans would be only four years behind them, at the max!

In case you haven't kept up on the news lately, there appears to be a worldwide crises occuring in the bee's world, its the equivalent of the Black Plague with a 75% mortality rate. While scientist are struggling to determine what the cause of the sudden collapse of the bee is, they do have some theories already:

1. Global Warming
2. Overuse of pesticides
3. nursing bees on refined corn syrups that don't occur in nature
4. pollution from human activities
5. cell phone radio waves-yep, it appears that the bee is deathly allergic to the frequencies used by cell phones. When they get near a phone or a tower, it causes their internal circuitry to go haywire, they lose track of where they are and plummet from the sky.

Item number five was a hard blow because I know so many people who would rather eat dirt than give up their instant communications and save the bees. Also, the cell phone signals as a culprit makes alot of sense considering the cell towers are all over the countrysides of America. In countries around the world, cell phones are the primary communications device, not landlines. The cell towers proved to be cheaper to set up for developing countries and their proliferation was rapid and unprecedented.

In Congress last week, I briefly saw a gentlemen speaking to some appropriations committee about the bee colony collapse in the US. He told the Congressmen straight out that money was needed THAT DAY, that there was literally no time to waste and that further collapse of the bees would be disasterous to everyone and every thing. Then, our business as usual behavior kicked in and no one raised an eyebrow. I laughed when the reporter stated that the bee crisis could lead to more expensive fruits and other products!

HELLO!! The bee crisis could lead to NO FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND MANY OTHER LUXURIES we've grown accustomed to. I'm convinced that the American public's five second attention span simply is so "in control" of our critical thinking that the majority of the public is oblivious to the fact that the bee collapse is the tipping point of an overall ecosystem crash. Yes, we're talking about that chain reaction as the food chain collapses around us. Yes, it can happen to American's too. Yes, it will take a crash like that to occur, causing American's to eat their dogs then their neighbors before they will entertain the idea that perhaps they should have done more earlier on.

Perhaps humans aren't the end all of evolutionary design as so many think of our race as. If we are so ignorant to the world we live in that we will sit back and watch it die around us without event wondering why its happening, perhaps we are overdue to join the dinosaurs and the myriad of other dominant species who have gone before us.

Nature is asking, "Can you hear me now?" Well...can you?

Comments

[FEATHERHEAD]

I can hear you loud and clear and I wouldn't have a cell phone on a bet!
good post!
STANDING OVATION!!!