Honey Bees Mysteriously Dying

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Note to self, do not buy Bayer Aspirin.

But think Bayer's bad, what ordinary people are doing to their lawns is horrible in its own right. Check this out:

From page 46 of A Natural Sense Of Wonder by Rick Van Noy.

"The California Air Resources Board says 2006 lawnmowers emitted ninety-three times more smog-forming pollutants per gallon than that same year's cars. According to the EPA, herbicide use has doubled between 1981 and 2001, and much of it ends up in the storm drains and eventually the watershed. The US Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that homeowners use ten times more chemicals per acre than farmers. According to the EPA, 95% of the pesticides used on residential lawns are possible or probable carcinogens. Children living in homes where pesticides are used have shown increased odds of childhood leukemia, brain cancer, and soft-tissue sarcoma. What a toxic patch of ground we tend."

It's just no wonder we're seeing ecological catastrophe.