"Einstein once
said, “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no
more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination…no more men!”
He said it to a
few friends.
The friends laughed.
He did not.
Now it turns out there are fewer and fewer bees in the world.
Today, on Earth
Day, let us acknowledge that this is not happening due to god’s will or the
Devil’s curse, but rather because of:
the murder of
natural forests and the proliferation of farmed ones;
monocropping for
export, which limits plant diversity;
poisons that
kill pests and with them everything else;
chemical fertilizers
that fertilize money and sterilize the soil;
and radiation
from the machines people buy because advertising tells us to."
~Eduardo
Galeano, Children of the Days
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