Do you think that the disappearance of bees cause the end of our world??

Question

This is a serious question please don't answer if you don't have anything good to say

Do you think that maybe this has a connection to the mayan calendar about worlds end at 2012? Because einstein said that after 4 years of the exticntion of bees world will come to an end( at least what i've heard) bees are practically dissapeared more than 90% have disappeared. Where have the bees gone??

Answer 1

90% of the world's bees have not disappeared. The 90% figure refers only to the wild bee population in North America, which has declined over the last 50 years or so, partially in response to other bee populations replacing them (African and European bees). If all the feral bees were to disappear, there would still be little cause for concern because there are always managed bee colonies. The cause for their declining population has not been conclusively determined, but factors such as intensive farming methods, use of pesticides and destruction of natural habitats have been examined as contributory factors.

The cause for concern is that bees pollinate about a third of food crop species. Without pollination, the crops will not bear fruit and seeds for harvest and growing subsequent generations. However, that is not to say that we will lose a third of our food supply; without bees these crops would be pollinated by other species of bee or different insects (and indeed, other species are already used for pollination on a small scale).

Steps are being taken to help preserve the bee population, including restoring wildlife areas and active breeding programmes. The agriculture industry is too reliant on insect pollination to simply sit back and watch in despair as bees die out - solutions are being found.

As for this 2012 business, it's complete nonsense with no factual or even logical basis, perpetrated upon the gullible by the gullible or malicious. Contrary to what many people say, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar does *not* end on that day, merely starts the fourteenth b'ak'tun (the b'ak'tun is kind of like the Gregorian calendar's millennium, only shorter - just over 394 years, as opposed to 1,000 in a millennium). You may remember people were also spouting doom prophecies at the turn of the Gregorian calendar millennium, and nothing came of them, nor the thousands of other "the end is nigh" predictions before them.