There have been a number of diaries on this issue but nothing in the past week or so. This issue must get the attention it deserves. If the bees die, and they are dying, we will die. That is not hyperbolic.
I strolled over to Huffington Post and found a link to this article in the Independent. Fuck Cheney's 1% doctrine when it comes to his pinheaded, hiding-under-the-skirt, chicken-shit militarism. This is something deserving of a 1% doctrine.
In short, our voices are needed and fast. Is it mobile phones? Is it GMO? As a subset of GMO, is it crops specifically designed by oversized ag. companies marketing seeds to produce plants with non-productive seeds so that growers are forced to return to those ag. companies to buy seeds in the next season? Is is a new parasite, a new fungus? I don't know, I don't care, I don't want to demonize anyone, any company, any industry. I JUST WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING DONE. Is there a line of bees that seems to be resistant to whatever is killing everything around it and how quickly can this line be 'recruited' to save us from ourselves (if indeed it is us)?
RAISE YOUR VOICES! I don't know where to start so I will start wherever. If you're looking for some background info, below are a number of links. Although I don't believe people are any more special than any other animals in the grand scheme of things and I don't think we would be missed, I am alive and enjoy life. I have a 3 y.o. and want to see a future for him.
THIS IS SERIOUS!
Importance of Bees, in Fact Monster
Economic Importance of Bumblebees (Are bumblebees similarly affected? I don't know.)
From Truthout, specifically referencing GM crops (the Independent article seems to pour cold water on this theory but why would it seem to affect the US so harshly vs. other economies with a much lower GM penetration? Just asking)
A brief from New Scientist with lots of questions and possibly an activist starting point.
Old but relevant to the discussion and a decent backgrounder if one reads through the Introduction.
A small resource page from Penn State's Entomology Department (the dream of my youth but a religious family steered me clear of science and I had no knowledge of why I needed to study hard and that I could get things like scholarships, partially out of educational apathy)
Blog series (check out comment 26 in the first post); part II, part III.