Paul Hawken - the birth of death

Both of these articles appear in the 6-27-08 issue of the Arizona Republic and each has an environmental perspective to them.

Arizona Republic … 6-27-08 … BEE CRISIS COULD BOOST FOOD PRICES …

A portion of Shaun McKinnon article in his series on our state’s environment notes the “holistic” manner in which the Hopi work with the land and the limited amount of rain “mother nature” chooses to provide to them for their dry land agriculture.

The other notes our government can only muster the “guts” to provide $700,000 for research on why the BEE crisis exists and $10 million for research. Am I missing something, as by all accounts from testimony by many across our nation and our world, this BEE situation just might be that proverbial “canary in the mine.”

Though it may be considered anecdotal in some quarters, there are bee experts who conclude this crisis may well be the result … of limited or contaminated water supplies … is “mother nature” trying to tell us something…?

The leaders of our nation spend BILLION$ every month killing folks in Iraq, but appears blind to the looming food crisis on its own door step.

Paul Hawken wrote … The Ecology of Commerce … wherein he discusses the rapid extinction of a species coining it – the birth of death – questioning how business leaders could defend an economic system based on the tenant that it is cheaper to destroy the earth than to take care of it…?

Ray Anderson, the founder and chairman of Interface, the largest commercial carpet manufacturer in the world, views the actions of his company as that of the “plunderer.” This is indeed an extremely harsh term and indictment for captain of industry.

How might we term our collective decision on the plight of the BEE and the prominent role this very small creature plays in our agricultural scheme…?

I don’t know about you, but this does not seem to be a very intelligent course we are embarking on…?

Is ours a course of action which treads lightly…?