I came to know the term Electrosmog on reading Joel de Rosnay recent paper, le carrefour du future, on Colony Collapse Disorder (or CCD). It is a poorly understood phenomenon involving the massive die-off of a beehive or bee colony.

It is frightening to read the Apocryphal quote: A chilling prediction about the importance of bees to mankind popular in the press recently is “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” This quote has been attributed to Albert Einstein, however the original source for this quote has not been reported and the earliest known use of the quote is from 1994.

At the same time I was fascinated to read the pages of Wikipedia on the subject. I am feeling guilty to use my mobile phone now.