my cat is getting desperate in her bids for attention.
I just watched a special on CCD, which is Colony Collapse Disorder, which is what was making all those bees disappear last year. (we don't know yet if it's still happening this season.) a lot of the stuff I already knew from reading this new yorker article, which was completely off-the-wall insane, I could not have written a more bizarre storyline. the bees are disappearing, all right, that's pretty freaky, but then we find them and see where they died and do some bee autopsies, and see that the bees are being attacked by multiple pathogens. fungi, parasite, you name it, are turning the insides of the bee into a disgusting black paste. it also turns out that the immune systems of these bees has been compromised.
which means that the bees basically have a form of AIDS.
seriously, this is beyond science-fiction nuts. I mean this makes the cellphone theory look plausible. I am seriously baffled in my attempts to even describe how fucked this is.
we are so fucked.
because before that I was watching anderson cooper run around in his black v-neck top with Amazon natives that made him look all the whiter shades of pale, talking about how species are being forced into extinction at a rate a thousand times faster than normal. then sanjay gupta got on and told me that the population is using resources about 20% faster than the world can renew them, and that by 2050 there will be 9 billion people on the planet.
bringing back memories of AP environmental science in full force. I used to come out of that class just totally in a mindfuck, completely depressed. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with us - maybe it's cellphones - but between this bee thing and global warming we are so, so beyond fucked. stop having children, now.
the best part was when they interviewed a poacher, who wore a disguise with glasses and a hankie over his mouth, and asked him if he realized what he was doing when he killed a tiger that was highly endangered. didn't bother him, he said - you have to remember, that when the supply is that low, the demand becomes very high.
I think that about sums up why humans are totally screwed. supply and demand applied to nature? we are retards.
now then, I hope you have a very nice evening, and a happy halloween, maybe you can dress up as a melting glacier and scare the wits out of everyone.
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that is the best idea for a Halloween costume I've heard. ever.
yeah I mean, how would you pull that off, anyway? I'm thinking it would involve dry ice. or maybe a sno-cone machine.
Jen, you're freaking me out!
sorry dylan, but you know it's all true. or is it? sometimes I get off on these tangents and give myself minor panic attacks. I had one after I wrote that entry.
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