A further indicator of the coming food shortages.
"In the UK alone, honeybee pollination is valued at £200m. Mankind has been managing and transporting bees for centuries to pollinate food and produce honey, nature's natural sweetener and antiseptic. Their extinction would mean not only a colourless, meatless diet of cereals and rice, and cottonless clothes, but a landscape without orchards, allotments and meadows of wildflowers – and the collapse of the food chain that sustains wild birds and animals."
Monday, 3 May 2010
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Perhaps we could all lose that excess weight, then?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, this is a potential disaster for humanity. Talk about epochal moments. It gets far too little press coverage.
Bee populations have been declining for some time, but it rarely gets the press coverage it should.
ReplyDeleteI think we are reaching some sort of crescendo, which makes me suspect the Maya knew a lot more than we give them credit for.