Collapsing Bee Populations - Part Deux

I've ranted incessantly about risk management on this blog. If there is one risk that I would quantify above all others, it is humanity's blind faith in science. With science now focused on bio-engineering, we will most assuredly open Pandora's box at some point. What will happen at that moment? Will we be able to close it again? We talked about these risks in the first collapsing bee post here.

Many of the same forces that created this economic crisis are at work in the food and chemical chain as well. Corporate lobbyists have short-circuited substantial safety measures by getting swift approval of many insecticides, pesticides, chemicals and genetically modified food products with completely unknown long term consequences. What we do know from Body Burden testing is that we are now often born with much of this chemical goo in our system and chemicals we were exposed to decades ago may not leave our systems. Ever. To what effect? Rising cancer rates? Serious signs of concern in the environment? A possible unforeseen global catastrophe killing millions or billions? Other unknown outcomes? Yes it sounds alarmist. And, that is exactly as I intend it. Alarm is the only way to pro-actively stop an unintended outcome at some point.

Yahoo has a new video on the collapsing bee population. Unfortunately, I can only link to the video rather than embed it. Click here to watch.