A correlation between Man and the Enviroment.

[El Supremo]

"If the Bee should dissapear from the face of this earth, Humans as a maximum will have only four years to live"-Albert Einstein

What does everyone think of that?

[TruBlu]

Originally Posted by El Supremo

"If the Bee should dissapear from the face of this earth, Humans as a maximum will have only four years to live"-Albert Einstein

What does everyone think of that?

I take this as a "everything and everyone is connected" statement. Its the hypothetical situation for a vital link in the chain being broken and it all falls away. In my opinion, I don't buy because of adaptation and massive environmental variety.

[flyBoy2010]

Originally Posted by TruBlu

I take this as a "everything and everyone is connected" statement. Its the hypothetical situation for a vital link in the chain being broken and it all falls away. In my opinion, I don't buy because of adaptation and massive environmental variety.

But the overall point being that we are connected with our environment and need to do everything we can to protect and preserve it.

[Buffa1oso1di3r]

Yeah, maybe it isn't as drastic as that, but we are connected to the environment. Think about it like this:

Say every Bee dies out. What happens? All the flowers die, because they're not pollinated to produce offspring. What happens after that? Herbivores die becuase they don't have ANYTHING to eat. Yeah, the scavengers and Carnivores may have a field day, but once their food sources are all gone, they'll die out. Then, we die out once our food stockpiles run out.

Sure, this is probably a more oversimplified variation of what would happen, but nonetheless, it's kinda true.

[devin0116]

I was watching a show on Discovery Channel I beleive it was, and they were talking about Bacteria. The experts said that if all himans were to die out that 99.9% of the species would NOT be affected. But if all bacteria died out than the humans would die out in maybe a few months.

[C.A.P. Flight Officer]

I am one of thise people who believe that everything and everyone is connected in some way or another. W eneed to work hard to preserve and protect the environment. Even you don't believe in Global Warming, we should all do something about it to help protect Earth. Sorry I got a little off topic.

[Drill for life]

Yeah I believe it, Bees pollinate almost all of our food. If we didn't die out we might just have a lot less Humans on this earth.

[C.A.P. Flight Officer]

How are we supposed to protect the bees? Has anyone tried to do something major concerning this issue? Maybe someone should try to contact a major figure head that would try to do something.

[TruBlu]

Originally Posted by C/Colonel

How are we supposed to protect the bees? Has anyone tried to do something major concerning this issue? Maybe someone should try to contact a major figure head that would try to do something.

There isn't really a "bee crisis" man. It's just a quote to explain a domino effect that could occur in nature, not so much a call to action for the bees. More like a call to action to preserve and admire the environment.

[navytrooper]

Originally Posted by Buffa1oso1di3r

Yeah, maybe it isn't as drastic as that, but we are connected to the environment. Think about it like this:

Say every Bee dies out. What happens? All the flowers die, because they're not pollinated to produce offspring. What happens after that? Herbivores die becuase they don't have ANYTHING to eat. Yeah, the scavengers and Carnivores may have a field day, but once their food sources are all gone, they'll die out. Then, we die out once our food stockpiles run out.

Sure, this is probably a more oversimplified variation of what would happen, but nonetheless, it's kinda true.

Someone can correct me on this, but...not all herbivores eat flowers, right? I mean, how about the plants that are pollinated by other animals, water, and wind? Sure, there would be a bunch of animals that would go extinct, but how about giraffes for instance? I don't think they eat flowers. We would still have stuff to eat because human beings can eat almost everything that lives, and part of the food chain as a whole would still stand because bees are only beneficial to plants that need them; and not all plants need them.