Stephan: Here is the bad news about the bees. It comes at the same time as the Obama Administration has rejected a ban on the neonicotinoids. As the downward slope of the bee trend has accelerated it has become clear that neonicotinoids are only part of the problem. But why wouldn't the government solve part of the problem? I think that is a question that remains unanswered.
There are also issues like the professional beekeepers stealing too much of the bees' honey and feeding them GMO High Fructose Corn Syrup.
The real problem though, in my view, is that this is a collection of examples of an entirely wrong-headed view of the world. One that is materialist and exploitive, and fragmented, and does not see the unity of life. One thats place profit above all other considerations. The whole package is being done to make profit, not to create wellness from individual to planetary. It is not problem of technology it is a lack of vision.
Read through to the end. The final paragraphs contain an update with the very latest research findings.
Nearly one in three commercial honeybee colonies in the United States died or disappeared last winter, an unsustainable decline that threatens the nation’s food supply.
Multiple factors – pesticides, fungicides, parasites, viruses and malnutrition – are believed to cause the losses, which were officially announced today by a consortium of academic researchers, beekeepers and Department of Agriculture scientists.
‘We’re getting closer and closer to the point where we don’t have enough bees in this country to meet pollination demands,
