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Could You Give Up Your Mobile Phone?
Further to my last post which revealed the possibility that mobile phones may be contributing to the decline of Bees in recent years I have been thinking about all of our modern day gadgets and whether I would be willing to give them up. Mobile phones for example have been around for what is still a relatively short period of time. I am 38 years old and can easily remember a time in my personal and working life where mobile phones were not common place, and barely in existence. Today mobile phones are a huge part of our lives and valuable to us for a multitude of reasons. Children have them to keep in touch with friends and even as a safety aspect. This can be for parents who want to know where their children are, therefore able to contact them at any time, so long as they answer the phone! It can also provide them with a method of emergency communication if needed. Similarly many adults have them solely for emergency use to provide that instant method of communication with t...
The Price of Technology?
I came across this article on the Daily Telegraph website and thought it was worth spreading around. Do we really have a full grasp of how our life style affects our environment? And given the immense and rapid technological advances that are being made can we afford to ignore these possibilities? The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed. Dean Nelson in New Delhi Published: 8:00AM BST 29 May 2010 Britain has seen a 15 per cent decline in its bee population in the last two years. Their disappearance has caused alarm throughout Europe and North America where campaigners have blamed agricultural pesticides, climate change and the advent of genetically modified crops for what is now known as 'colony collapse disorder.' Britain has seen a 15 per cent decline in its bee population in the last two years and shrinking numbers has led to a rise in thefts of hives. Now researchers from Chandig...