Unnecessary deaths and diseases

Fortune wrote about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) a month ago, strange phenomenon that has caused massive bee-deaths all over the world. The cause for this phenomenon is still a mystery, but few things caught my eye in the article. First there is a theory about virus/fungus combination that kills the bees. Dr. Jennifer Sass points out that we also have to ask what is behind the epidemic. What weakens the bees so that the are left vulnerable to virus/fungus combination? Secondly the beekeeper Chris Charles described how his bees has been acting as if they were drunk. They were just hanging outside the hive and couldn't work anymore.

One theory is that pesticides are behind these problems. There's also been notes, studies and books of chemical's effects on health of humans. For example Marla Cone's Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic. Chemicals has also been blamed of allergies, respiratory infections and even of ADHD and similiar attention disorders all over the world. Whatever the case is, there's one similiarity with bees' CCD and people today.

People are sick very often today. There's around 2-3 flu epidemics per year in Finland plus all stomach bugs. I remember my family living years without a single flu, but nowadays you can't live a year without. There's also this strange change in our behaviour. Today's people are less willing to aim high and strive hard for their goals. We give up easily and wait for government, corporates or just someone else to solve our problems. As if we'd lack personal power. We don't want to hear the negative stories anymore - entertainment and fast fullfilment of our needs are more important than the fact how they've been produced. We have attention disorders and allergies more than ever even though we have the best medical care and highest level of scientific knowledge available.

Well, not everything can be blamed on chemicals, but we've have enough of PCB's and DDT's. We could survive with less of them. What makes us the people lacking the power to take a stand for cleaner environment? What makes us like slaves, taking everything we're given even though it's dangerous to our health? What makes us just believe the "scientific studies", paid by the corporates whose interests are only in money we have, not in the wellbeing of ours?