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I love how society is ignoring the bluntness of the situation. If bees go down, we go down. Simple as such. All of our food supply depends on flowering plants
by neonihil 5y ago
I love how society is ignoring the bluntness of the situation.
If bees go down, we go down.
Simple as such. All of our food supply depends on flowering plants. Without the workforce to distribute pollen, no seeds will grow. Without seeds, no new plants will grow. Without new plants, we have nothing to eat. Nor does our meat stock.
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- pfdietz 5y ago> If bees go down, we go down. The great majority of crops are wind pollinated, not insect pollinated. So this is not entirely clear.
- neonihil 5y agoYou have a point. There are wind pollinated plants. It is not entirely clear though how effective the pollination would be for those plants without bees. But these crops do require bees. Coffee is one of them! Just saying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinated_by_bees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinated...
- pfdietz 5y agoWhy should bees have anything to do with wind pollinated plants? The plants are not optimized for attracting insects or depositing pollen on them. So, no, I don't think these plants require bees. Coffee has actual insect-attracting flowers and is clearly insect pollinated, unlike the major staple crops. From your link: "Most staple food grains, like corn, wheat, rice, soybean and sorghum, need no insect help at all; they are wind or self-pollinated."
- bserge 5y agoYeah that was a big thing a decade or so ago. Then it switched to global warming, then climate change. Old news don't make money, and that's what's important.