In 2007, on Colorado's eastern plains, farmers imported beekeepers with their mobile bee hives to pollinate crops. The lack of bees in the United States created the first imports of bees since 1922. Reports suggest that bees are being killed by pesticides called neonicotinoids that impair the bees' immune systems. One of the most widely used is imidacloprid. It's sprayed all over crops from California to Maine. Consequently, bees get sick and die!
"In addition," Donnelly reported, "wild pollinators -- from bumblebees to butterflies to nocturnal moths -- have lost much of their habitat, due to vast use of pesticides and herbicides that kill plants and hedges in which the insects and birds live."
With over 80,000 manmade chemicals being injected into the land, water and air -- doesn't it make you wonder what in the heck we're doing to ourselves and future generations?
At the same time, humans continue overpopulating this planet by a net gain of 80-million annually. At what point will leaders, citizens, media and the rest of us speak up? Can it be too soon, too late, or do we simply watch our civilization collapse from our apathy?
"The American people today are involved in warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware of it and even fewer of them are doing anything about it. This is a war that is being waged against the American environment, against our lands, air, and water, which are the basis of that environment."~~Norman Cousins (1915-1990)
In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, "Immigration, Poverty, and Gum balls," Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.org, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation. Take five minutes to see for yourself.
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