Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

So in the news lately, they've been talking about Colony Collapse Disorder where essentially bees have been simply vanishing. Due to many food bearing plants relying on cross pollination, they claim that if all the bees would die out, we could kiss 1/3rd of our world's food supply goodbye. I suspect it might be more than that, but that was the approximate number.

So I just watched a documentary about these disappearing bees, and in it they had a quote from Albert Einstein: “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”

As I watched this film however, they began talking about Africanized bees that were found to be more stubborn than the regular honeybee. One expert stated that Africanized bees would be able to achieve what regular honeybees couldn't, and that these bees would be able to live longer than man.

That shone a lightbulb in my head that reminded me of the Romantic literature I studied in college regarding nature, and it got me thinking about the whole global warming thing. It also reminded me of that quote about global warming from George Carlin stating that the earth's going to be just fine. Nature will find a way, and nature has provided a way through these Africanized bees, just like it will find a way to overcome global warming.

I don't mean this optimistically, mind you. There's a reason we call them "killer bees". It's nature's way of lashing back at humans. We try to control everything, and these Africanized bees are simply telling us that we're not as all-important as we think we are. It's the same with global warming. It might kill us off, but the earth will be just fine. All this time we thought we could outsmart nature - it turns out she's just been playing us for suckers.