Reply #16: I live in South Eastern Ontario [View All]

[irislake]

Last summer I was terrified to notice that within one year bumblebees has gone from plentiful to two or three a day visiting the planters on my deck. Wild honeybees that were abundant ten years ago have been totally wiped out.I have not seen honeybees for years. I saw no (zero) little irridescent brightly-coloured dragonflies that once were so abundant that they perched on my hand when I was out on the pond in my boat. Large black dragonflies were down from thousands to maybe hundreds. A biologist said gnats are gone from these parts. On rainy days and nights the roads used to be covered with thousands of frogs. No longer. I do hear spring peepers now in the woods around me but biologists report there are fewer of them.

Living in the country as I do I am in total despair. My daughter has one year old twins. Emails, "I can't stop kissing them!" I don't think there will be a world for them to grow up in. I think it is too late. Edgar Mitchell (astronaut) wrote 30 years ago that it was urgent to act then to save the planet. He said he thought we only had a couple of decades.

I think it is too late. My poor children and grandchildren. What have we done? Not that I will give up but it's very scary.