Albert Einstein once stated, “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” It is vital that everyone be informed about the problem with the bee population and the need to take action to save the bees.
SOS-Bees is a denomination of Greenpeace which, according to their mission statement, is the “leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.” Focusing solely on the honeybee, one of the world’s primary pollinators, they write how there has been a twenty-five percent loss in Europe since 1985 and a whopping forty-five percent decrease in the United Kingdom since 2010. According to the United States Global Research program, thirty percent of the overall “U.S. bee population has disappeared and nearly a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have perished” in the last five years. …show more content…
The majority of flowering plants require pollination to reproduce, and bees are responsible for about seventy percent of that pollination” reports Stephen Bede Scharper, a journalist for the Toronto Star. He continues to say that “if the bee population collapses, so does most of our food production.” Without major food sources, the human race will not last very
SOS-Bees is a denomination of Greenpeace which, according to their mission statement, is the “leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.” Focusing solely on the honeybee, one of the world’s primary pollinators, they write how there has been a twenty-five percent loss in Europe since 1985 and a whopping forty-five percent decrease in the United Kingdom since 2010. According to the United States Global Research program, thirty percent of the overall “U.S. bee population has disappeared and nearly a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have perished” in the last five years. …show more content…
The majority of flowering plants require pollination to reproduce, and bees are responsible for about seventy percent of that pollination” reports Stephen Bede Scharper, a journalist for the Toronto Star. He continues to say that “if the bee population collapses, so does most of our food production.” Without major food sources, the human race will not last very