Human society is extremely complex and fragile built upon various pillars, one of them is the honey bee. If all the honey bees were to die out thousands of plants would follow which could lead to millions of people starving in the following years. Food including apple, onions, pumpkins and also plants used for feeding livestock and thus extremely important for our milk and meat. On top of that, ho
ney bees have a huge economic impact. The dollar value of plants pollinated by them each year is around $265 billion. Einstein is often quoted as having said “If honey bees die out, humans will follow a few years later”. It’s unsettling but honey bees have started to disappear, millions of hives have died. In the last few years beekeepers all over the world have seen an annual loss of 30-90% of their colonies, in the US alone bees are steadily declining more than 5 million hives in 1988 to 2.5 million today since 2006. Humanity is deeply interconnected with Earth and the other lifeforms on it, even if we pretend that we’re not. We have to take better care of our surroundings, if not to preserve the beauty of nature, then at least to ensure our own survival.
