There might be something to that, in Kentucky there were firefly's every ware, since then i have moved to NC for 3 years now i have seen them slowly emerge from no where O-0
Manufacturing et al. depend heavily on what the most efficient production method is. You can't decentralise absolutely everything; you can of course partly decentralise power, but if you're getting electricity from hydro lakes they ain't gonna move far. That said, electricity is incredibly cheap to transport so it doesn't really matter anyway. The main incentive of localised generation is that it makes certain systems such as wind and solar more realistic, and also provides some redundancy in case lines fail. Manufacturing is another thing. Having factories for everything everywhere doesn't work; it's just too inefficient. Our best bet is to decentralise what we can, and transport the rest as efficiently as possible. (You don't have to use gas or trucks to do it; freight trains work pretty well for 90% of the distance, and can be made fairly efficient. They're not perfect, but you would be using them as appropriate considering that.) The same, in fact, goes for food. I don't see it being possible/realistic/whatever to ship everything halfway across the world for much longer, but sometimes you don't have a choice. You aren't going to get bananas to grow cheaply in Canada, for example. It would still turn out better to ship them up from Ecuador or wherever. Of course, that is a lot of energy to burn moving food around, and I would expect the prices of exotic food would reflect that. If it can't be grown locally, it won't be cheap to get, and people won't be inclined to buy it every day. Energy scarcity isn't going to make long-distance transport impossible, or even unrealistic, or even necessarily uncommon. It'll just mean that it can only be used when there is a good reason.
I seen this special on the discovery channel about a man who Transports bees with a truck, he takes 100's of colonies of bees and moves them across the US to pollinate the crops.Maybe that can take a little strain off the decrease.
i grow sunflowers here in my garden in virginia and when they bloom i see plenty of bees around them i love it,i hope they never go away.as goes the bees so we follow.
I think the original article said that doing this is stressful on the bees and kills many of them. This is the problem right here. Stop hording all the bees for yourself.
I found this thingy and bookmarked it for some reason: http://www.chow.com/stories/11117 It's a bunch of videos about a beekeeper who talks about bees... and about the disappearing of them. After the first video ends, the next one rolls automatically. It's part of a series about people who focus obsessively on creating one type of food. Like one guy who makes only one kind of pizza but makes sure it's perfect (custom ovens, etc) or some guy who makes absinthe. It's interesting to watch when bored at work. o.o
bees are annoying! Normally a bug flys by and i swat at it and it flys away, however when i do that to a bee sometimes they fly right onto me and crawl on me!!!! I hate them, i try to punch them.
Yeah but they pollinate. afaik, pollination is needed to eh, well,... Polination is like plant sex. Without sex, no babies. Capische? I think... X.x
Realising this I decided I needed to go to 'Plant sex education classes' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuYrFwDuYn0&feature=related That turned me on so much I got into "Plant Erotica" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByHh5_t_rAg&feature=related But that wasn't enough.. I started watching plant porn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvYVmmTl3zA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z7roeuTbuM&feature=related and went to a "A Plants Jack Shack" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDU7pZMBsfE&feature=related I caught a"Plant STD" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBb2TbSfYQ4&feature=related and it's all Dons fault for giving me a new perspective.
