4 Responses to “We got 5 years to live”

1. Father X
   June 28th, 2008 at 20:17

   

   I heard about it and saw a documentary. Very disturbing. Don’t spend to much money on your pension, and enjoy your life.

2. Beasjt
   June 28th, 2008 at 20:36

   

   Einstein never said that.
   See: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/2782

3. wtf
   June 28th, 2008 at 23:06

   

   it’s not cell phones. the problem is probably bee-keepers over-using antibiotics. there are certain disease-causing bacteria and fungus species that can grow inside beehives and cause damage. as a bee-keeper, you can buy antibiotic strips that you can put in the hive to control those bacteria and fungi.

   the CCD (colony collapse disorder) problem stems from a basic fact of biology– simple organisms can quickly evolve resistance to antibiotics if they’re over-used. it says right on the antibiotic-strip packaging that the strips need to be replaced every month with new formulations, in order to prevent the bacteria and fungi from developing resistance. but the strips are expensive, and bee-keepers tend not to be the best-educated folks in the world, and tend not to read packaging (or to understand it if they do). so most of them put the strips in and then just leave them in, only replacing them when they see visible signs of bacterial or fungal growth in the hive. because of that, the disease-causing bacteria and fungi have now evolved into new strains, and they’re wiping out entire hives.

   (yes, i used to be a bee-keeper).

   there’s also another theory, which i personally do not discount. there’s a powerful US chemical and biotech corporation called monsanto, and many people (myself included) consider them the most evil corporation on earth. their stated goal is to replace all food-crop seeds used in all agriculture on the planet with their patented GMO versions, so that they can live up to their motto of “no food grown that we don’t own.” they’re also trying to buy up all the water rights on earth, so they can completely control (and suck out profit from) every bit of food production everywhere.

   a few years ago monsanto decoded the complete honeybee genome, and then quickly made a statement that, according to their analysis, the honeybee is “dangerously lacking” in genes to fight off infection, and that honeybees are in grave danger of extinction because of this (despite the fact that honeybees have existed since the age of the dinosaurs, and they haven’t gone extinct yet). then, “coincidentally,” right after monsanto cracked the bee genome, suddenly bees all over the place start dropping dead, hives wiped out, from some strange, heretofore-unseen disease that’s mystifying scientists.

   remember that monsanto’s goal is to replace natural “open source” species with their own genetically modified (and patented) varieties. go ahead and connect the dots.

4. wtf
   June 28th, 2008 at 23:14

   

   and just to be clear, those two scenarios are just hypotheses, and yes, i realize they’re mutually exclusive. based on my experience with bees, and my conversations with people still in the industry, i think the first scenario more likely. but if scientists investigating CCD are able to eventually eliminate bacteria and fungi as causes, and isolate some sort of new virus as the culprit, then i think the second scenario becomes VERY likely.