Something is killing hundreds of millions of bees, and nobody knows why. CBS News reports:
What CBS does not report is that last year, there were a record 3.8 million bee colonies in the United States. So why the big die-out? Scientists are on the case, but since the Tyrant just shut down research at the USDA, Cornell University is picking up the work.
I recall that ten or twenty years ago, the bee decline was in the news, and after a long interval of research, it was determined that a certain pesticide was responsible. So I thought that had been taken care of - but here we are again.
This massive die-out is really bad news. If the bees die, we die. No bees, no crops, no food - result, famine and starvation. Then goodbye, human race and life as we know it on Planet Earth.
But do you think the circle jerks now in power give a fuck?
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