On the big picture coming up next. On this weeks show let me tell you about the birds and the bees they are disappearing why and why thats not good also this half hour when the facts of life arent obvious to government leaders citizen diplomats personal fear despite our leaders but 1st we shop til we drop even as the american middle class is drowning in debt im hala cook in washington for the next half hour its an impeachment free zone this is the big picture america. While President Trump crows about a booming economy the american middle class is. Browning in debt not including mortgages we owe 4 t. Trillion 1. 12 zeros a trillion and a half in Student Loan Debt haunts many people well into middle age car loans average over 32000. 00 now and a 3rd of new car buyers roll in the remaining balance from the last car alone with low unemployment Consumer Confidence is confident and the president nags the Federal Reserve to lower Interest Rates even more how did we get here and how risky is
Companies that make them. But now, growing evidence shows that these insecticides are not only killing target pests, they are killing many beneficial species and destroying the base of the food chain. This has happened before. Are they the new ddt . We dont want to have an insecticide that kills things it shouldnt. Weve been somehow railroaded by Agrochemical Companies into relying entirely on their products. And i think we should be really concerned. It began with honeybees. In 2006, large numbers of worker bees began to abruptly disappear from honeybee colonies. Since then, beekeepers have been losing 30 or more of their hives annually, losses that are higher than normal. This phenomenon came to be called colony collapse disorder. New york state beekeeper jim doan saw it firsthand. Ive worked in bees for now 46 years, and so i know what normal looks like, and what weve seen over the last 6 or 7 years is not normal. Honeybee loss has consequences for the economy. Onethird of food prod
Companies that make them. But now, growing evidence shows that these insecticides are not only killing target pests, they are killing many beneficial species and destroying the base of the food chain. This has happened before. Are they the new ddt . We dont want to have an insecticide that kills things it shouldnt. Weve been somehow railroaded by Agrochemical Companies into relying entirely on their products. And i think we should be really concerned. It began with honeybees. In 2006, large numbers of worker bees began to abruptly disappear from honeybee colonies. Since then, beekeepers have been losing 30 or more of their hives annually, losses that are higher than normal. This phenomenon came to be called colony collapse disorder. New york state beekeeper jim doan saw it firsthand. Ive worked in bees for now 46 years, and so i know what normal looks like, and what weve seen over the last 6 or 7 years is not normal. Honeybee loss has consequences for the economy. Onethird of food prod
That these insectides are n only killing target pests, they are killing many beneficial species and destroying the base of e food cha. This has happened before. Are they the new ddt . We dont want to have an insecticide that kills things it shouldnt. Weve been somehow railroaded by Agrochemical Companies into relying entirely on their products. And i think we should be really concerned. It began th honeybees. In 2006, large numbers of worker bees began to abruptly disappear from honeybee colonies. Since then, beekeepers have been losing 30 or more of their hives annually, losses that are higher than normal. This phenomenon came to be called colony collapse disorder. New york state beekeeper jim doan saw it firsthand. Ive worked in bees for now 46 years, and so i know what normal looks like, and what weve seen over the last 6 or 7 years is not normal. Neybee ls has consuences f the ecomy. Onthird ofood proded in the u. Sdepends honeybe polination we are putting at risk several hundred b
That these insectides are n only killing target pests, they are killing many beneficial species and destroying the base of e food cha. This has happened before. Are they the new ddt . We dont want to have an insecticide that kills things it shouldnt. Weve been somehow railroaded by Agrochemical Companies into relying entirely on their products. And i think we should be really concerned. It began th honeybees. In 2006, large numbers of worker bees began to abruptly disappear from honeybee colonies. Since then, beekeepers have been losing 30 or more of their hives annually, losses that are higher than normal. This phenomenon came to be called colony collapse disorder. New york state beekeeper jim doan saw it firsthand. Ive worked in bees for now 46 years, and so i know what normal looks like, and what weve seen over the last 6 or 7 years is not normal. Neybee ls has consuences f the ecomy. Onthird ofood proded in the u. Sdepends honeybe polination we are putting at risk several hundred b