Colony Collapse Disorder

[Zelda Veteran]

So people are finally starting to panic. Colony Collapse Disorder(CCD) is finally reaching people's attention. You might have already known that in 2006 some honeybees were going missing. Nobody payed too much attention to it, because it was small. But now, half of America's honeybee population is disappearing, and nobody knows why. This is where things get freaky.

1. Albert Einstein warned about the disappearance of the honeybee. He speculated that if not for the honeybee, the human race could die off in a matter of 4 years.

2. The Aztec calendar stops in 2012- four years from now.

3. In the bible, its said that a man would rise in the east, and he'd soon rise to the highest power. That man is supposedly Satan. The highest power in the world at this point is he who is at the helm of the most powerful country- America. Elections take place every 4 years. Hmmm...

This is pretty freaky stuff. Seriously. If you're actually wondering why we'd die from the disappearance of bees, here's why:

Honeybees are MAJOR pollinators, and are responsible for 1/3 of the worlds food. Plants die. Animals die. People begin to starve- and die. Couldn't we live off of sea-food? Well, thats a possibility yes. But we wouldn't get all the nutrients we need from Sea-food alone. Scientists are looking into the cause of dying bees. But it still remains a mystery.

[TP Zelda]

Oh heck no!

Don't start scaring me with this crap!!

:( :( :(

I'm scared now.

Thanks alot.

I actually want the bees back.  :(

[MagmarFire]

Honeybees are MAJOR pollinators, and are responsible for 1/3 of the worlds food. Plants die. Animals die. People begin to starve- and die. Couldn't we live off of sea-food? Well, thats a possibility yes. But we wouldn't get all the nutrients we need from Sea-food alone. Scientists are looking into the cause of dying bees. But it still remains a mystery.

True, but let's look at this at an ecological standpoint. Why do you think the human population is growing at an exponential rate? It's because people have the idea that we need more food because we have more mouths to feed. This, in turn, leads to an increase in population, which further leads us to believe that we need to increase our food supply more, which increases the population again. The loop goes on.

If anything, this could be a good thing. For the world, anyway. If there's less food, our population should help remain in check. Do I think that people will die? Unfortunately, I think it's highly possible, but I seriously do not it's going to be as cataclysmic as people are making it out to be. Einstein seemed to assume that if the honeybee dies out, all of our food will go. Indeed, this would be bad, but I don't think this is the case. Heck, even if our food is reduced by only a slight amount and not to increase for awhile, more people are not necessarily going to die of starvation. In this situation, yes, after a few years, our population goes down, but it's not because the death rate has increased--it's because the birth rate has decreased.

But hey, if humans do go kerplunk because of this...well, we better start changing our ways and start repenting to buy us more time. We've been on the path toward self-destruction since ten thousand years ago.

Forgive me if I missed some stuff or if I haven't been too clear.

[Rev Rabies]

You know what plants use pollen zv? Flowers, you know what flowers are good for? Nothing.

And the bible said that the person would ise in the east, have millions of followers, and escape some fatal illness, and america's in the west :D

[darkphantomime]

Your ignorance of biology is truly staggering, doctor.

[Gamefreak]

I think JDog's done something to you Dr.  You seem to have an abundant supply of  :D's in your posts now.

And JQ's right.  Shame on you.

[Rev Rabies]

Actually, it's from my constant talking to gurlz on teh myspoce

And yeah, flowers give us oxygen, but so do trees and other non-flower based plants, so flowers aren't 100% neccessary, just plant more trees

[darkphantomime]

It's not just flowers. Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, all that stuff requries polonization in order to grow. All vegetation. And do you know what will happen when we can't grow grains? Livestock will die. And if We can't food from livestock, plants, or grains? WE die.

[Rev Rabies]

and did you know most vegetables/fruits utilize flowrs?

[MagmarFire]

Does rice require pollination?

[HylianHero92]

3. In the bible, its said that a man would rise in the east, and he'd soon rise to the highest power. That man is supposedly Satan. The highest power in the world at this point is he who is at the helm of the most powerful country- America. Elections take place every 4 years. Hmmm...

:o Are you saying Satan will win the Election of 2012?! Also, could you point out where in the bible it says this? It's not that I don't believe you, I just want to read the original.

[Rev Rabies]

It may have been something stated by the vatican, not the bible itself, and the 2012 thing has nothing to do with the biblical part, zv just stated a bunch of facts that seem to fit together quite well

[MagmarFire]

Four years from now, the Aztec calendar stops... Hm... What did Commodore say about this kind of thing before...?

[Rev Rabies]

These are all widely known fortellings of the apacoplypse, what i said was the fortelling of the antichrist. A little known fact is there are a lot of people out there that think the pope is the antichrist

[MagmarFire]

And I've also heard by a certain interpretation that those who want to save the world are the Antichrist.