The Canaries in the Mine Are Dying - How Much Longer Until It Spreads to Man?

“There are an awful lot of bat people, even a month ago before we had half of this bad news, all saying the same thing. We’ve never seen anything like it, and we’re all scared,” said Alan Hicks, the leader of the investigation for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, in a telephone interview today.

White Fungus

Some bats in the die-off have a white fungus encircling their noses. Most living bats now are underweight, too thin to make it through the winter, Hicks said. They choose their hibernating spots based on weight. Colder resting spots, like the ones near the entrance help energy reserves last longer. MUCH MORE 

Interesting enough, in the same article that appears above, they placed a potential dollar amount on the rapid extinction of the American Honeybee and the financial impact to the American consumer - and it’s staggering!

A separate malady known as Colony Collapse Disorder has killed millions of bees in the U.S. and threatens $14.6 billion of U.S. crops, including almonds, apples, oranges and blueberries, which rely on bees for pollination, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. It may cause $75 billion of economic damage if left unchecked, the agency said. (Emphasis added.)

The illness was identified after thousands of U.S. beekeepers found unusually large losses — 90 percent or more in some cases — beginning in 2006. Colony Collapse has been found in 35 U.S. states, one Canadian province, and parts of Asia, Europe and South America. Scientists haven’t identified the cause and believe it may be the result of several things in combination.

“You have a strong parallel with the bees in that we just don’t know what’s going on,” Hicks said.

Obviously, no one appears to have answers that offer any type of short or long-term hope, and if a breakthrough isn’t made soon, in regard the Birds, Bees and the Bats, our situation will progressively get worse. We are facing one of the most important Presidential races in modern history, and issues that affect the very survival of millions of Americans aren’t even being debated much less even known by the majority of the voters.

Because of a complicit and cowardly MSM, issues such as these have never been melded together to provide the “big picture” so voters would understand the dire circumstances we face, so instead of it receiving the press and scrutiny it should, it has become a non-issue because the mainstream news media, along with members of Congress, have decided to keep this “hot potato” out of the election debates hoping that it will be addressed by the next administration - in other words, politics as usual.

As we face this critical issue and seek answers, try to keep one factor in mind. If you have toddlers, or family members that have newborns or toddlers, ask yourselves this question; as the years pass, and it’s time to give your children that talk about the “Birds and the Bees” and these children are twelve to fifteen years old, at the rate the bee colonies are collapsing and the birds are dying, it’s extremely probable, in your own lifetime, to witness the end of the American honeybee, and birds may become so rare that most of the truly unique specimens will be in climate-controlled Zoos rather than available to sing outside your kitchen windows.

As we do with the political future of our country, we stand at an abyss holding the essentials of life itself in our hands, each one of us hoping that the next one to govern will do so with saving the world in mind - not necessarily from the terrorists, but from ourselves and a government that refuses to challenge the trials and tribulations of tomorrow, who foolhardily scoff at global warming and climate change, admonishing us because it’s too expensive to the energy sector and our economy to address the many environmental crisis’s that threaten our very existence on planet earth.

When it's all said and done, which is the correct path to healing our ravaged earth? Moving forward with more endless wars that will eventually bankrupt our nation, or change course and attempt to mitigate and change the course of global warming, a project that will require the participation of the entire global community as opposed to endless war and a constant fight to prop-up what’s left of a dying world by polluting it even more with the machinery of war. The 2008 elections bring many vital matters to the forefront, and in order to survive as a people, it’s necessary for us to address these matters, among others, during the Presidential debates so we have a change to vote on a mandate of peace and prosperity rather than continuing on a path to eventual extinction.

Peace And Mitigating Climate Change Are More Profitable Than War

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