As They Say, Nature Always Bats Last

Did you catch this quote at the end of today's NYT story on colony collapse disorder?

But Mr. Adee, who said he had long scorned environmentalists’ hand-wringing about such issues, said he was starting to wonder whether they had a point.

Of the “environmentalist” label, Mr. Adee said: “I would have been insulted if you had called me that a few years ago. But what you would have called extreme — a light comes on, and you think, ‘These guys really have something. Maybe they were just ahead of the bell curve.’”

As they say, Nature always bats last. Environmentalists are the catchers.