tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2283694207541334416.post8951268916384355130..comments2022-08-23T07:34:49.231-05:00Comments on BLUEKNOWSER: Conspicuous Consumptionblueknowserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03990954476515135035noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2283694207541334416.post-51961349094067433122008-12-21T22:03:00.000-06:002008-12-21T22:03:00.000-06:00These blooms are especially pleasing as we look ou...These blooms are especially pleasing as we look out on a field of white snow. But your 'ponderings' also made me think of what I've been reading about the drastic decline in bee populations in Ontario and, I think, elsewhere over the past few years. The article had to do with the conversion of an old dump - unsuitable for housing - in Guelph, Ontario, into a 'bee garden', a site devoted to providing a large bee friendly environment.<BR/><BR/>One of the points made in the article was that many of the highly cultivated flowers we put in our gardens are not particularly rich in pollen. They 'mislead' the bees with their spectacular blossoms but deliver little.<BR/><BR/>So there's another way of looking at those blossoms. Could they be a misleading illusion?<BR/><BR/>And based on that, might we also make similar misjudgements about what look to us to be healthy and 'rich' economic environments?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com