Reply #72: Terrifying! Terrifying! [View All]

[irislake]

I honestly fear my little grandchildren will have no future. Over one year the thousands and thousands of dragonflies around my pond and property have dwindled to a few. The bumblebees that came to my planters on my deck by the hundreds last summer bizzing and buzzing all day long in every flower are gone. I counted two every day. One got into the house and I removed a storm window to let it out.

In rainy weather thousands and thousands of frogs used to swam onto the country roads to get squished and cause compassionate swerving by frog-loving drivers. No more.

A local naturalist reports gnats have gone -- and some birds that fed on them. Swallows have vanished from my pond. Not a single pair nested here this year. There once were hundreds.

I have three hundred acres of red and white pine with a bit of oak and maple. I hear that an infestation of some bug that is destroying the pines in B.C. likely will not be killed and stopped in Alberta because it's not cold enough there for long enough now to kill them. All my pines will probably be killed in my lifetime. Maybe within five years.

Wild honeybees have been gone for years. I miss the wonderful hum of honeybees in the wild cherry tree out front. Many wildflowers are vanishing because of the disappearance of the honeybees. All these changes are sad and scary enough but they affect other flora and fauna.

On the bright side though the turkey vultures are more numerous. Hmmmm.

I could KILL Stephen Harper and his idiot environmental Genius Rhonda.Or Rhoda. Daughter of a big oil man.

And thanks, George Bush for sending up your crew of corrupt scientist deniers and their little band of public relations twits to help them out. I understand they are the very same scientists and public relations folk that used to support the beleagered tobacco comanies way back when.

Carpe deim time is fleeting! Talk about SOYLANT GREEN.