Uh oh. So the theory that cell phone radiation is screwing up the bees' sense of direction is gaining some legs ... but not a lot of attention.
Also according to various articles and Albert Einstein if the bees go, the rest of us will disappear four years later. You'd think we'd give a damn.
A quick glance through daily kos shows me people have picked up on this.. Okay and this person too. But honestly, it doesn't seem to be getting the kind of play that that Imus story got. 48,000 hits on google for the cell-phone-befuddled bees versus 11,300,000 for Don Imus.
So once the theory gets some more legs (six, maybe. heh. bee-humor to lighten it up some) how do the bee-lovers get the googlehits for bees?
What worked for the Imus scandal was giving the victims a face and show their basic intelligence, dignity and great smiles.
The pro-bees have to make the bees sexier. Can't get the little insects smarter--and let's face it, bees aren't cute like baby polar bears, so they'll have to make real victims someone with a face worth looking at. Which humans can the apiariphiles bring in here? Maybe the young blonde apiarist who loses her business?
Better still, the audience must be victims. No, don't bother to focus on the widespread death in a few years or decades or whatever. That's too far away to care about. That kind of long-term blathering just gets you the "Global Warming? Where's the evidence? It's April and fricking cold here" response. The pro-bees need something more immediate. Like. . . Just think of what this'll do to the price of honey at your local store.
The cell phone industry would also strike back with victim stories. The luxury has become a necessity! The devastation on the human race and economy if the cell phone towers fall.
Me, I'm not sure where I fall on this issue. I'm just so worried. I might have have to abandon my almost-new flip phone that takes pictures. It's a tough choice, bees or camera phone. I mean I still haven't figured out how to get the blurry pictures from the phone to my computer. But damn. How'll I know what time to get my kid from the mall?
God, I'm scared. I think these guys ("This is the website that completely knocks the wind out of the enviro's sails. See over 17,000 scientists declare that global warming is a lie with no scientific basis whatsoever.") should get to work right away, before the anti-cell phone threat becomes real.
updated to ask the two real questions:
- If the cell phone theory does prove true, how much fighting against the huge cell-phoney bucks will it take to get changes made? Courts! Lawyers! Motions! Etc! Will the dragging-their-asses-through-courts process end before or after we lose most of our food supply? Naturally any change would happen after Bush--and if another big business prez comes into power after him, well, bye bees. Heck, would enough convincing proof be collected in time to present the case to the courts? (that would be question 1a.)
- And if it isn't true, what the hell is killing off the little buggers?