[lit-ideas] Re: Honey [insect insanity]

  • From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:08:58 +0900

Evidence! Data! Three cheers for reality based thinking.

John

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>  The real loss with honey is that bees are dying from colony collapse
> syndrome.  Bees are needed to pollinate just about everything.  It could be
> a coincidence, but the planet is in a mass planetary extinction of
> species.  (Something like the sixth in its history.)  A planet-wide
> extinction could take a couple of centuries in human years; in geological
> time it shows up as one instantaneous event.  This particular extinction
> may be triggered by humans, for example what we're doing to the oceans.
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> ****http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html
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> Robert Paul
> The  Northwest A. A. Milne Society
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