I was forwarded a music-ish video that bugged the heck out of me – in a good way. It featured a collaboration between the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and the World Wide Fund for Nature Germany. The harmonious effort is aimed at tuning the world into the critical fact that insects are being killed off at a rate unhealthy for all life on the planet.
Especially hard-hit by the careless debugging by humanity are pollinators essential to many crops, if not all plant life.
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