“In honor of Earth Day, Maher stresses the necessity of sacrifice. He points to the colony collapse phenomenon, which has affected honeybees on a global scale. Because of our agricultural dependence on this insect, Albert Einstein once said that “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left.” The exact cause of their disappearance is a mystery, but there’s little doubt that we’re the ones responsible for it. If cell phone signals are the cause of this die off, will we decide to literally talk ourselves to death…?”

Millions of Bees Die - Are Electromagnetic Signals To Blame?  http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/03/06/millions_of_bees_die_are_electromagnetic_signals_to_blame.htm
Mystery of the dying bees http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1087

Bee Man’s Worry: Colony Collapse   http://forager.newsvine.com/_news/2007/04/09/655036-bee-mans-worry-colony-collapse-

If Bill Maher’s reference to Albert Einstein on Bees is accurate, and Einstein’s estimate itself more than simply an educated guess, “The end of the world as we know it…..” is due around the same time, C.E. 2012, as has been calculated by some interpreters of the Mayan Calender.  Here in Indian Country we’re noticing other signs that the days of those who’ve been so slaphappily numbering their days (The Mayans gave theirs names, too.  Us free wild natural people don’t do either.) are in fact numbered.  The Tormentors, for example, who’ve always relied heavily on divinations of the dark and bloody sort, are completely unable to “see” anything at all beyond an event horizon now less than five years out.

And it isn’t only the Honeybee people who’re apparently bailing on the civilized world.  Frogs and other amphibians have been “disappearing” for awhile now.  Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises have been beaching themselves “to death,” as well.  Even financially “advantaged” domesticated humans are trying to encapsulate their selves in enclaves increasingly sealed-off from the disintegrating effects their own concentrated wealth is having on the social and economic and ecological systems from which it has been extracted. 

Meantime, the masses are kept carefully “out-of-the-loop,” urged to carry-on with their consumptuous binge like there’s no tomorrow.  Most of ‘em seem only too eager to comply.  Yet there is in all of us the instinctive recognition of the fact such MADness can’t go on for long. 

So now comes, perhaps, a definitive answer to that two-millennia plaint of the scattered Jewish nation, “How long, O Lord?”  It is only fitting the final calculations’ve been done by one of their own….one, moreover, whom the rest of the tame two-leggeds are pretty much bound to respect, too.

If this old Indian was stuck in “time” like our domesticated sisters and brothers, a Way back into the HeartSong ‘n’ HoopDance of Life Herownself would sure be welcome about now.  The Tiyoshpaye form just might make it through the eye of this needle.  Make-believe “individuals” and their various random collections don’t stand a chance.

HokaHey!

Yes, we should “Make Every Day Earth Day” or we’ll soon all become like those Sunday Christians who have their god corralled into an hour one morning of the week and their ‘saviour’ conveniently nailed to a cross!

We should never forget that what we commemorate on EARTHDAY, which ever day we choose, is that not only is there an environment (“Gaia”) which we must co-operate with and nurture and protect but the Planet Itself (“Terra”) which is a Space refuge for us all.

We depend as much on the Earth’s magnetosphere for sustaining life on the face of the Earth as we do the biosphere on Its surface. it is a protective cloak without which we could not exist. It is an essential part of the relationship and interaction with the Sun and Its “atmosphere” or solar wind (another life-sustaining “cloak”) and the cosmic rays emanating from It and elsewhere in Space.