New Year, dead birds: Is it happening again?

Remember last year there were all those dead birds that fell from the sky and littered the streets in that town in Arkansas? Did you see it happened again this year, albeit on a smaller scale? Same thing, red wing blackbirds, too: About 200 birds found dead in Arkansas city for second straight New Year's Eve

(See link below) My first thought was to write about it but then I figured it would get big, widespread coverage already anyway. I try to post different things. So, then, today, there's this story of yet another die-off: Norwegian beach briefly carpeted with dead herring

It seems scientists aren't sure if predators rather chased them onto shore or a storm surge did it or what. (Again, link to to original story below). My only points in posting about these is to say, here we go again, seemingly, first, and second, are they related to all the die-offs last year? Hopefully they aren't and hopefully, maybe we just weren't as aware of these things in the past. Maybe this always happened but international media and reporting and computers make all this far more available and knowable. Hopefully that's the case. Because if that's not the case, we also hope it's not because of how we--humankind--live, one way or another, and that we're causing these things. Between our pollution and pesticides and belching carbon dioxide into the air at hugely increasing levels and rates, who can say? Hopefully this is not a huge, devastating deal. That said, the way we live on this planet just really isn't sustainable, as the scientists confirm. Links: http://articles.cnn.com/2012-01-01/us/us_arkansas-bird-deaths_1_blackbird-deaths-dead-birds-fireworks?_s=PM:US; http://news.yahoo.com/norwegian-beach-briefly-carpeted-dead-herring-145338809.html;_ylt=AtijTgTm3EOkC3VY7.tHXmSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTN2N2g3dDdwBG1pdANPZGQgRnJvbnQgUGFnZQRwa2cDMTAwMzIyOGEtYjhjMC0zNzE2LTg5ZWItNDk2Y2JkN2ZkMGI2BHBvcwMyBHNlYwNNZWRpYVNlY3Rpb25MaXN0BHZlcgNmMTYyMzNlMC0zNjFhLTExZTEtOTlmYi04NmE0OGUxMDEzYWM-;_ylg=X3oDMTFvdnRqYzJoBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3

"Vanishing of the Bees" Documentary: maybe we should pay attention?

Quote of the day--peaceful coexistence

"We are on the cusp of a significant turning point in history - either these instances of really terrible seemingly unstoppable catastrophic disasters will increase and get worse or we will wake up and make the changes we need to make to transform them into planetary peace and stability. It is up to us to choose, but first we must each take responsibility for our own part of the problem." --Yehuda Berg

Link to original post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yehuda-berg/what-the-is-going-on_b_561642.html

Note to Missouri chemical companies Bayer and Monsanto

To the chemical companies--and even the farmers--around the world:

You're killing us:

"The mysterious 4-year-old crisis of disappearing honeybees is deepening. A quick federal survey indicates a heavy bee die-off this winter, while a new study shows honeybees' pollen and hives laden with pesticides."

Do you know how central, how pivotal, the common honey bee is to our existence, folks?

Extremely.

Pollinization is key to a great deal of plant's lives around the world and if we don't have bees, it can't happen.

What else, other than the common honey bee, is going to go from plant to plant, pollinizing?

You? Me?

Nope. And we know it.

Check it out: "About one-third of the human diet is from plants that require pollination from honeybees, which means everything from apples to zucchini."

Note that it's from A to Z.

One third of the human diet potentially not available because we use--overuse, really--chemicals and pesticides.

"This year bees seem to be in bigger trouble than normal after a bad winter, according to an informal survey of commercial bee brokers cited in an internal USDA document. One-third of those surveyed had trouble finding enough hives to pollinate California's blossoming nut trees, which grow the bulk of the world's almonds."

As Bob Dylan wrote and sang "A change is gonna' come" and it better be sooner than later, folks.

We'd better start paying attention to what we're doing to our world.