Honey Bees, can we survive without them?

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Honey Bees are disappearing World wide at an alarming rate. Already Europe has banned certain pesticides in an attempt to allow Honey Bees to survive. Although not without controversy, chemical companies of course are saying that it is not their chemicals that are causing the loss of trillions of Honey Bees.

America is worrying that there will not be enough Honey Bees to pollinate certain crops this coming season. Even with that worry, the pesticides that are thought to cause the deaths of the Honey Bee, have not been banned.

Scientist World  wide think that what certain pesticides are doing to the Honey Bee to cause their death is; they think that the pesticide enters the bloodstream of the Honey Bee when the Bee lands on the flower to collect pollen( for cross pollination of plants) and interferes with their navigation system, so that they can’t find the hive, they then die.

What are we doing to stop the disappearance World wide of the Honey Bee? Not enough. As we stated earlier, Europe has placed bans on certain pesticides. Most other countries have not.

Again, our World leaders are slow to act. Again there is NO unified response or even a unified belief in what is causing the loss of the Honey Bee. As in all crisis that this World of ours is currently enduring, while they argue over who or what is to blame. Nothing happens.

Will any response now actually stop or even slow down the rate at which our World is losing Honey Bees? We don’t know! Is it likely that there will be a unified World response actually take place? I will let you be the judge of that! ( my personal opinion, NO)

If as some are predicting, the total extinction of the Honey Bee, occurs. How will we cross pollinate our crops? How will we produce enough food for our World’s population? There are other insects and some birds that do create cross pollination, however nowhere near as much as is needed or supplied by the Honey Bee.

It appears that yet again our World leaders have allowed Man to interfere with our Environment without thinking through all of the risks.

Again Man has thought that he knows better than Mother nature. What has taken our Planet millions of years to create, Man is again showing just how quickly, he can undo what nature has provided.

 

 

 

Global Companies create Environmental destruction, what if they had to truly compensate society for the damage?

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It is no longer a debate that the Earth is warming, only whether man is the cause. However we also know that our love of FOREST DESTRUCTION  and the high use of FOSSIL FUELS is changing the dynamics of our World’s atmosphere.

We know that the OCEANS are becoming acidic, that is why scientists are experimenting with ways to change the PH levels at certain places. Particularly at the World’s Coral reef sites. We know that the amount of fish in our Oceans is declining and that is changing the quantity and quality of the Food sources taken from our Oceans.

We know what oil leaking into our Oceans has done to the wildlife that relies on the cleanliness of our World’ Oceans and beaches. We know that some fines have been handed out to those Companies believed to have allowed such oil leakages, but do those fines actually meet the costs to our WORLD”s Natural Resources and long term outlook. Do these fines even meet the actual cost of cleanup and ongoing maintenance of the damaged regions. Probably Not.

Our World is changing. THIS WE KNOW. Unfortunately our attitude to our future is not. Even if you believe that this Beautiful Planet we ALL call home is not changing by Global Warming. You should be aware that Water is becoming one of the most valuable commodities on this Planet and our World leaders believe that this is due to warming of our atmosphere, which changes our World’s rainfall pattens.

In America, States are going to Court over water rights. Georgia and Tennessee are fighting in court. Texas and Oklahoma are also fighting in the American Courts over Water rights. In Zimbabwe villagers have had to become scavengers for water just to survive. Not for industrial use, purely for drinking purposes. In Chile, the Chilesns want control of their rivers back. All of these things are occurring due to the actions of Multinational Companies. Who Pays? Not them.

In Seattle, America. The Bullitt Foudation building is being built to be totally self sustainable. All over the World Average people are trying to build self sustaining buildings for their homes and businesses. You would think that governments of all types would welcome this type of thinking. This resurrection of living in harmony with our Planet. Unfortunately that is not the case. Almost in every case our Government bodies have place obstacles in front of these forward thinking people.

We know that plants slow climate change, they do this by absorbing carbon dioxide, by forming clouds and by producing shade. Obviously the bigger the Plant the better. Old growth forests being by far the best. These Plants, preferably these old growth forests, should be protected at any cost. Without them we die. BUT What do our Large companies do. Why they cut down the trees don’t they.

Food prices World wide are continuing to rise, even as food production increases. The use of Dirty fuels also continue to rise. Fuels like coal, oil and gas, and yes, we are increasingly digging these fuels out of the ground to meet demand of Large Multinational Companies. Don’t forget though, that as our World population increases so does the use of motor vehicles.

How do we solve this problem? It really is so simple, you would think everyone would know. The simple answer is to STOP DIGGING THESE SUBSTANCES UP! Find other ways to do what we need to do.

 

Wealthy Countries struggle financially, poorer countries buy guns!

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As the world’s financial markets implode and all Countries, even the wealthy, struggle to balance their budgets, it is interesting to note that the poorer countries are buying more weapons and threatening to use them.

In Cyprus many lost millions as the EU bailed out their near bankrupt economy. I wonder how the ultra rich fared, better that the normal I would bet. Many other countries in Europe are close to the financial situation that forced Cyprus to accept the bailout terms. How long before more must do the same.

What happens to the World’s finances when this type of bailout continues with other countries. Can the World’s money brokers cope? Will they want to? It is not just Europe that is in financial strife, America’s a supposedly wealthy country whose budget we know is continuing to run into unprecedented debt, and came very close to having their citizens make huge financial losses. Would the multinational companies have accepted large losses as well. I think not, just look at what happened, last minute agreement between political parties. How much longer can they continue as they are?

The so called best economy in the World, Australia a supposedly wealthy country, has gone from a budget surplus to multi billion dollar debt in just seven years. Australia will have to accept financial hardship to rectify this situation. Will they?

Asia’s economy is growing. Is this due to the low wage costs alone, or is the work safety attitude also a factor. China’s Economy is slowing and that will effect every other Economy in the World.

Meanwhile, North Korea, a country that can’t feed it’s people continue to invest heavily in weapons. And are even threatening war with the USA. African nations are at war internally, spending on weapons rather than food for the people. Eastern European countries are fighting internally, spending money on weapons rather than food for their people.

How long before those countries that have amassed large stocks of weapons turn then on their neighbours in search for food and water. It seems that violence is increasing in most countries of the World as the gulf between those with enough and those with nothing increases.

History shows us quite clearly what happens when those with enough become fewer than those with nothing. REVOLUTION. Is what happens. Currently those countries that have never known abundance, those countries whose people have always lived from hand to mouth, surviving on what they can find or grow for themselves, with never anything left over. These Countries, through the internet, are seeing that others have more. AND they are working towards gaining that which they feel the have missed out on.

This Planet currently has approximately seven and a half billion people, and there is not enough to go around. What will happen during the next twenty years as the World population increases to Nine billion or ten billion or more. Will those extra two or three billion people accept having nothing or will they fight for their families survival.

Bees are dying, how will we pollinate our crops to feed the world?

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All over the World bees are dying. Without bees how will anything grow, what can we use to pollinate all of the plants needed to feed our growing World population?

It appears that in our hunt for faster growing and higher yields from our food crops, the chemicals that we are introducing into our environment to create faster more productive crops are actually destroying the very insect that we need to cross pollinate for growth to occur.

This type of action in our farming community has been happening all over our Planet for a long time now in human terms at least. over the last hundred years or so with the introduction of man made chemicals to stop disease and insect infestations, has affected not only our environment but the lives of our farmers and their communities.

Who can forget the DDT disasters for both the environment and human health, and some countries still use it! With a lot of consumers being unaware of what chemicals are used in some countries that supply the World market’s food.

Our Industries are just as short sighted, our military, our governments, our scientists. All are looking for quick fixes for a long term problem. Mother Nature has taken many thousands of years producing everything required for harmony on this Planet. For harmonious interactions between many species of plant, animal, insect, birds etc that actually work.

Man in his usual way, thinks he can do Better in a few years than Mother nature has done in millions of years. Guess what? Man is wrong. Man can’t help but try to outdo God, or the cosmos or mother nature, whatever name you want to use, BUT he is wrong. Not wrong to try, But wrong to act so quickly in introducing new chemicals etc into and environment that was designed to be harmonious.

Man struggles to envisage all of the connections between all living things and this living Planet. Man therefore believes that he can change one thing and that it will not impact on everything. Again he is wrong. EVERY action will have a re-action in every living thing. Everything is connected, and when we forget that we create chaos in our environment by introducing something man made.

World leaders and scientists are looking at how to stop the destruction of bee populations, and I for one hope that they are successful. However we should have learnt from our previous mistakes, that our food production is easily enhanced in the short term, but usually with long term issues.

The Egyptians have been using irrigation for centuries, so has Asia. The western world use it with large areas and huge machines and wonder why their land becomes unproductive. The Egyptian’s and Asian’s use small land holdings and manual labour, careful not to overuse their land. The western world uses chemicals to try and make the yields higher, then wonder why after a few generations the land turns to desert and kills the natural harmonious lifeforms that Mother Nature provided.

Forests, the lung’s of our Planet, let’s destroy them and make it harder to breathe!

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Forests, really are the Earth’s lung’s, especially old growth forests. They take our human waste breath and renew it for us, giving our entire World’s population breathable air. So what do we humans do! Why simple really, DESTROY these lung’s for money now, and don’t worry about breathing in the future, after all we will be dead too.

Every nation on this planet is destroying old growth forest. Australia still clear fells native forests in Queensland and is talking about destroying the only real forest’s in Western Australia. Already the other States are cutting down heritage listed areas, with no sign of letting up.

Canada’s Forest’s are also being decimated by logging and mining interests. North America is heading in this same direction. Russia’s great Siberian Forest’s are being ravaged as well. Europe and England’s forests are dying due to pollution and business interests too.

We all hear about the Amazon and Asia’s Forest’s being destroyed for Palm oil plantation’s, mining and farming. We are now hearing that the Amazon and Asia’s forest’s will be given tougher restriction’s on forest destruction. In the case of Asia, that is simply because they have already destroyed about 90% of their forest’s. In the Amazon it is due to it becoming more financially viable to use alternative sources of income for the large logging companies.

In the real World, what does this all mean to you and I? It means that the overall air quality is deteriorating Worldwide. It means that, winds and rain will change Worldwide. It means that the future for our children and grandchildren in regard to the air that they breathe will be difficult unless we can adapt quickly to less oxygen in the atmosphere.

It will mean that our children and grandchildren will only ever see true old growth forest’s in pictures, never being able to experience the real thing.

Why do we humans do this to ourselves? Since the industrial revolution, money has become the only important factor in anything that we humans as a society choose to do. Every country on this Planet is destroying the productivity of their farmland, even as they are become more efficient at growing things, if we continue as we are, even engineered crops won’t be able to feed us.

As we destroy our Forest’s, so do we change rainfall patterns, making water an ever increasing substance to fight over. Already States in America are fighting over water sources, this type of activity will only ever increase as water becomes the new Gold.

What can we do?

We can become aware of what each and every country is doing to their Forest’s and when it comes time for elections, make our forest’s an important part of every future politicians requirements to achieve our vote!