No coffee, No jeans? Oy! If All the Bees in the World Die, What Would Happen to Humans?

[RiverLover]

If All the Bees in the World Die, What Would Happen to Humans?
EcoWatch
Cole Mellino | July 28, 2015 10:41 am

Bees play such a crucial role in our ecosystem. Some even claim if they go extinct, we would be next. Colony Collapse Disorder—the name given to the mass die off in bee populations—is a grave problem.

In May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that the U.S. honeybee population plummeted by more than 40 percent in the last year. Many groups have called for a global ban on the class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics, which have been linked to the mass die off in bees. President Obama organized a Pollinator Health Task Force, but many believe that its plans for improving pollinator health do not go far enough.

So why are bees so important? What would happen if all the bees die?

Watch this video to find out:

Or for a quick visual~



Around the world in the last few weeks~

Neonics blamed for high rate of bee deaths in Ontario

Grain farmers launch legal action over Ontario's new rules on neonics

Bee cause: Germany tightens, UK relaxes neonic regulation

Pesticide experts silenced by UK Government as it looks to bring back bee-killing neonicotinoids

Beekeepers, grain farmers at odds over move to restrict neonics

GMO Corn Increased Pesticide Use by 300%; US Government Agency Claims Exact Opposite to Protect Biotech Industry

....Looks like its BigAg Corn & Soy (& Bayer & Monsanto)

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Our precious bees ( & coffee!)



*xposted in E & E group

[drynberg]

1. AGREED, BUT THERE ARE OTHER REASONS FOR COLONY COLLAPSE SUCH AS...

90% of all commercial bees in the USA go to northern California to the rather small almond orchards, where only almonds exist and then they are feed sugar syrup for at least a month. They also visit other bees and share various mite and diseases, as they are very social. They commercial bees travel 1000s of miles in the back of 18 wheelers in between their "jobs". Now, I'm not saying other factors such as neoniconiods are also factors, I just want to show that this is a complex process. Also, most colony collapse syndrome occurrences are happening to commercial beekeepers, not small scale beekeepers.

[marmar]

2. No coffee? Oh HELL No......

[font size="5"]SAVE THE BEES NOW![/font]

[ladjf]

3. Most humans won't give a damn until almost all bees have died. nt

[Dr Hobbitstein]

4. US Honeybee Colonies Hit A 20 Year High

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/23/call-off-the-bee-pocalypse-u-s-honeybee-colonies-hit-a-20-year-high/