Goldwert Vol. 2

The Apiarist

This set of symptoms was very unusual, especially the symptoms of pests like the hive beetle and wax moth waiting weeks before moving into the dead hive. Nor did the other bees steal the honey and bee pollen as they normally would from a dead colony. Something was repelling the bees and the pests, something they could sense. Moreover, while the hive was collapsing, the remaining cluster of bees would not feed on their usual syrup and protein. And the female worker bees just flew off, abandoning their hive, a behavior contrary to every ingrained instinct to build and defend the colony for the queen. 

—Michael Schacker, A Spring Without  Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply

Montana’s problems are far less acute than those of crowding, traffic, smog, water quality and quantity, and toxic wastes that beset Americans in (...) the other urban areas where most Americans live. If, despite that, even Montana has environmental and population problems, it becomes easier to understand how much more serious those problems are elsewhere in the U.S. 

—Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 

Oakland, California

Nürnberg, Germany