Fruitless Fall

The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis

De: Rowan Jacobsen

Narrado por: Rowell Gormon

Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007, beekeepers watched 30 billion bees mysteriously die. And they continue to disappear. The remaining pollinators, essential to the cultivation of a third of American crops, are now trucked across the country and flown around the world, pushing them ever closer to collapse. Fruitless Fall does more than just highlight this growing agricultural catastrophe. It emphasizes the miracle of flowering plants and their pollination partners, and urges readers not to take the abundance of our Earth for granted. A new afterword by the author tracks the most recent developments in this ongoing crisis.

©2008 Rowan Jacobson (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

A must read

Absolute eye opener! Makes you realize how serious a problem this is. New respect for the wonders of nature. Great!

Fantastic Perfection of disaperance of bees.

This is the most comprehensive studying of why the bees are diapering the world wide easy to understand.

We are in trouble

I never would have imagined we could mess up our world so easily. Bees are one of the things that keep us alive and we are destroying them.

Compulsory Reading - Share with Everyone!

As a beekeeper and staunch advocate for the protection of pollinators, the sooner people understand the problems associated with the way we humans are choosing to exist on this planet, the sooner we may be able to stop this 6th extinction from transpiring. Our global quest for large-scale mono crop agribusiness as the primary means for human existence on earth, means some get extremely wealthy and powerful while most go extinct. Trouble is, when all the life has been squandered in pursuit of wealth and power, one cannot eat money nor exist in a world devoid of that which fostered our ascent to planetary domination . Well done Rowen, this is an epic novel that deserves to be a chart-topper. Move over Rachel Carson, your "silent spring" has reaped a fruitless fall.

Great story to show great science

This book is definitely a narrative of bees and the new situation for the last decade or so (even sipping briefly back to the origin of bees). It also contains good science, it's well referenced, and provides answers to a lot of questions this lay-person has been wondering about what ever came of that CCD crisis that seems to have slid out of the media as it became less captivating (but not less urgent).
The narrator is good, though even toned, which might be right for this kind of science-heavy writing. But his French and German accents when quoting studies from those countries is a little silly, though it does provide a nice departure from the evenness of the rest of the book. He's also got a nice impersonation of a southern drawl.