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So, L.D. and I high-tailed it to the Environmental Film Festival on Sunday. I arrived conscientiously on foot, L.D. via earth-polluting vehicle and we watched Vanishing of The Bees, a film about Colony Collapse Disorder, and the effect it is having not only on the world's bee population, but the trickle down effect on every living thing on the planet.
Sobering stuff.
Aside from the enormity of the problem of Colony Collapse Disorder, the film uncovered some pretty hideous practices by bee keepers such as artificial insemination and the use of D.D.T in San Antonio, which left both L.D. and I with mouths wide open and hands raised to our faces in horror.
Unless we wish to subside on a diet of gruel in the future, we all need to do our bit and choose organic honey (as well as organic fruits and vegetables, etc).
Most frightening of all is that we did this. Colony Collapse Disorder is not the result of evolution or some unfortunate natural disaster. It came into existence due to our mistreatment of this planet we call home. L.D. places the blame with our parents' generation, but we cannot remove ourselves from the collective we of the human race. We did this to our planet, now we have to make things right. Before there ain't nothing left to fix.
