Review: It's a wake up call ... you will learn a lot from this book!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2013
Author, Adrian Schafer, has written a book within a book.  One story is about a young bee and his encounters in the micro-environment of his existence.  The other is about two young people who are destined to fight against all odds the greediest of mankind, and the masses of wealth that protect them, in a quest over the future of mankind. This book inside a book is intended to entertain so that the reading may be palatable, which it succeeds at very well, but the primary function of this book is to dissolve our rose-colored glasses.  It hopes to open our eyes to a globally serious phenomenon, like nuclear fallout, that could quite literally end us.  `Oh, pooh poo', you say, but some people, like me, already get it.  It's all about the bees and it begs the question, `why are bee colonies collapsing throughout the industrialized world?'  The players are an interesting mix; you have your watch dog environmentalist all over the world and their constituents, often called The People; then comes the rich, powerful and horrifically corrupt by greed, too big to fall, corporate / familial empires who have made their billions off products that provide instant gratification out the front door, but destroy the eco-environment out the back door; and then there are the equally slippery media and political figures and their groupies.  Who are you going to believe?  I hope you will choose simple common sense over all the big money propaganda.`Oh, pooh poo', you say but do you remember the effect of destroying something like 85% of the aquifers in America?  We gave it a name, the Great Dust Bowl!  Those aquifers were hundreds of thousands years old, much like our coral reefs, designed by the environment to last for hundreds of thousands more years.  But it was greed that sucked them dry to the point that they collapsed.  Somehow we managed to survive that but through many years of great hardship because hunger hurts.  What will happen when greed has killed off all the bees, then what?