Something Small

I have long been fascinated with the weird, the strange, the divine, the apocalypse. How much longer will mankind reign on this earth? Will we die out in a massive clump or will fall away one by one, the decline unnoticed until it's too late to stop it?

I don't know. But I have long thought it would be something small that takes us, that destroys humanity. Not a nuclear war or even global warming, although maybe the something small will be related to either.

In the last few days there have been stories about honey bees. These little creatures are quite necessary if we're going to move forward.

Imagine, the entire agriculture industry brought to its knees by a little bee - or the lack of the bee.

In this day and age, with all our wisdom and technological advances, hives are bees must be moved from field to field so pollination of crops can take place. We don't have a machine that can do what these bees do. We don't have an answer to their loss if they should in fact become extinct.

Some plants will continue to prosper because they are pollinated by wind, but the majority of pollinating plants require that tiny little bee to make the pollination process complete.

The news reports indicate the bees have low immunity systems and high levels of foreign bacteria. It might be a natural decline, or it might be the result of something we've done.

There really isn't anyway to know.

So maybe there will be, in the future, no honey for your bread. Maybe there will be no bread.

All for want of a bee.