Titel: A Spring without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply
Verlag: Lyons Press
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1599214326
ISBN-13: 9781599214320
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: 1st Edition
Druck: 1st Printing
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

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Using CCD as a metaphor for our own human hive, Schacker asks: Are the bees trying to tell us something? Could this be the warning sign of a much larger crisis looming directly ahead? Might humankind suffer someday from 'Civilization Collapse Disorder'? And how must we change our human hive in order to ensure its survival? Like "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Silent Spring" before it, "A Spring without Bees" is a compelling cautionary tale and a clarion call for action. On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a chemical similar to DDT.This time the culprit appears to be IMD, or imidacloprid, a relatively new but widely used insecticide in the United States. Many beekeepers and some researchers think IMD is the new prime suspect for the devastating syndrome known as Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, which has raised the annual die-off rate of honey bees to 30 percent of all the beehives in the United States. They say even trace amounts of IMD make bees lose their desire to feed, which would quickly lead to the collapse of their colony. After several days, there are few or no bees left in the hive. Since honey bees are essential to the production of fruit, nut, and vegetable crops around the world, their demise could spell catastrophe for our food supply and global economy.

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Michael Schacker is an investigative journalist, having written numerous articles for the Ulster Clarion. He has served as a political consultant and has worked as a strategic consultant for The Rodale Institute, the World's leading organic agriculture group.

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