"In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian scientist, philosopher and social innovator, predicted that in 80 to 100 years honeybees would collapse." Queen of the Sun

> Steiner believed the industrialization of bees would lead to their demise. It looks like he was right. In the past two decades, the United States has lost 100-300 billion bees, and the problem has spread to Europe and beyond. While industrialized beekeeping operations do kill millions of bees each year, several other factors contribute to their massive die-off.

> By ingesting genetically modified crops, pollinators also ingest GM microbes, to their detriment. Without pollinators, crops will collapse. As crops collapse, myriads of species, including humans, will starve. Both the film and the UNEP report leave no doubt that the collapse of pollinators is the most urgent problem facing humanity today. 

> Pollinators are keeping score of the corporate war on nature. They are telling us that pesticides, biotechnology, and cell phones are winning. The tragedy is that when pollinators go, so will flowering plants and, likely, the Age of Mammals.

> Honeybees aren't out to get you. Honeybees are vegetarians ...  http://www.queenofthesun.com


[ Good old Rudolf is back in the news. This stuff is rich. Most urgent problem? Evidently none of these folks has even heard of wind pollination, or self pollinating flowers. I can't help wondering if all this attention to bees, and the flood of misinformation is harming the cause rather than helping in any way ]

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