Scottie Gilg - Free Response 1 (1/28)

In my Writing Intensive, Writing about the Environment, we had a guest speaker who is the creator of the documentary, Buzz Kill. Her name is Brooke McDonough. She graduated from CNU 5 years ago and now shares powerful conservative and histories stories through journals, videos, and pictures. She came in to speak about her documentary which talks about the tension between non- native honey bees vs native honey bees. It mentioned how conversation efforts have been stagnant in retrospective of the native bees. Brooke said that the general population can help the native bees by planting more flowers that are native to the region, having flowers that bloom in the early fall and spring, voting for representatives that care about these important topics, along with many other things. 

One thing that I was not aware of before her talk is that honey bees are not native to the United States. I did not know that if someone wanted them, they needed to be shipped. I have always known that bees were important to our society, but I did not realize how vital they are. In the film, it mentioned if bee's were to die or stop pollinating, how expensive and how much of a luxury it would be just for someone to have a cucumber. This shows me that although eating things that a cucumber are so normal in my life that without bee's I would not be able to enjoy simple things like that.