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Issue date: 8/7/07 Section: Opinion

If the bees go, the farmers will have to come up with a new way to pollinate, or a vast percentage of crops will yield no fruit, one-third of the worlds food supply is pollinated by creatures such as bees. Bees pollinate 90 percent of apples, which would represent a $40 million dollar loss, according to a study done by Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences. It would also devastate an entire food chain of animals that prey on bees, their larva and the plants they pollinate.

Note that this is only happening in the U.S.; most other countries, including our close neighbors Mexico and Canada, are unaffected.

Europe is not a continent where cell phones are uncommon, yet they remain virtually unaffected. Perhaps Europe's use of satellites and less frequent use of towers could be the cause. In that case, a possible bifurcation would be to switch primary cell phone use in the U.S. from tower to satellite technology.

You never know what effects that might have, though, so if you really want to save the earth, cell phones need to evolve or die. Just like everything else in nature.

If they don't, you can expect to be paying high dollar for certain fruits and vegetables, if they even appear on the shelves.

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