Neovox Idea

A friend of mine recently sent me an instant message saying “the bees are dying” to which I replied, “oh shit, then we’re screwed”. That is definitely one way to start up a conversation; he had obviously piqued my interest. I asked for details and he went on to tell me he was watching and episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher” that talked about various environmental problems, one of which was the rapidly declining bee population. Einstein was quotes as saying “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man." Maher mentioned that there scientific speculation that cell phones could be to blame as part of the reason why the bees are dying off. Apparently bees stay away from cell phones because the electromagnetic signals they emit interfere with the bees’ natural navigation abilities. I’ve looked around the Internet a little and I’ve found information which both supports and refutes this claim, unfortunately a lot of it has a political slant to it, but I would like to continue researching it for my Neovox article because I think it would be interesting to see if cell phone technology is really causing such a problem. Even if it isn’t, would people give up their cell phones if they knew it was killing the bees? This was the point Maher was trying to make and I would like to do something similar. I want to illustrate the ridiculous lengths to which we will go to avoid having to give up our precious technology. If you knew cell phones were killing off the bees would you give them up? That is a serious question that I think a lot of people would have a difficult time answering. Is technology mutating our priorities that much? Should we be concerned?