Where Have All of the Bees Gone?

A fellow writer posted a note on a writer's forum I frequent the other day. The note was reportedly from the wife of Michael Schacker, the author of the book, "A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply."
Schacker reportedly had a stroke shortly after the book was published and never had a chance to do any marketing for his book. I haven't verified these claims, but the purpose here is to let you know about a book that theorizes that bee colony collapse has been caused by our environment.
This is a very serious problem I don't think has received nearly as much attention by the public as it should. Without bees, we will not have fresh produce. It's as simple as that.
Here's a portion of the email reportedly written by Barbara Dean Schacker:

"You can help right away by buying a copy of "A Spring Without Bees" and reading it. It is not a "depressing environmental disaster" book, but rather is written in a surprisingly smart, easy style, almost like a mystery novel--you'll see! Then you can pass the book along to a friend and ask them to put the message out on their email or urge them to buy a copy and pass it along if they wish. You can also go to Plan Bee Central online to sign up for the Plan Bee Action Plan and to find out more about what you can do to ban these pesticides. Buy a copy for Thanksgiving and give thanks to the bees for creating the food you are eating. Buy them as Christmas or holiday gifts so that people can read them over the winter and be prepared to ban locally, plant their bee garden or get their hive to replenish honeybee populations in the spring. I guarantee you will be rewarded for your efforts by meeting a lot of nice people on this journey--I have!"

So there you have it - I'm going to try to convince my bookclub to go for this one.