tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935755860899789954.post5336892046972072326..comments2023-12-18T05:43:37.923-08:00Comments on Brigit Strawbridge : Bee Decline: as important & urgent an issue as Climate Changebrigithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07359515063025817090noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935755860899789954.post-64727815924963690122014-08-08T01:29:58.067-07:002014-08-08T01:29:58.067-07:00Great blog! Hope the politicians are reading it.
A...Great blog! Hope the politicians are reading it.<br />An ecosystem is rather like a giant game of Jenga - remove one block and it becomes unstable but remove another and the whole thing comes crashing down. I think there are three fundamental problems;<br />one is big corporations putting profits over and above everything else. If selling a harmful pesticide generates more moneyprofits than a bee-friendly version then so be it. By the time these companies realise, it may be too late.<br />Secondly - Most governments around the world see this declining bee problem as an insignificant problem way down on their 'priority list'.<br />Thirdly, a widely held misconception that such a small insect could be so influential to our environment. Not enough people in positions of power and influence realise or are even aware of the 'butterfly effect' where small, seemingly insignificant changes lead on to big effects. Our main crops are insect pollinated with the majority of those insects - beeing the humble bee (in various forms). It annoys me that humans are the only species to pollute our 'larders' TK42138https://www.blogger.com/profile/10086921219386129506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935755860899789954.post-87527868489255535942014-08-08T01:25:20.920-07:002014-08-08T01:25:20.920-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.TK42138https://www.blogger.com/profile/10086921219386129506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935755860899789954.post-44599817883175822302014-04-25T17:51:20.340-07:002014-04-25T17:51:20.340-07:00pretty nice blog, following :)pretty nice blog, following :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935755860899789954.post-38517935629205890202014-03-26T04:22:20.133-07:002014-03-26T04:22:20.133-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425680238038891176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6935755860899789954.post-25877121545526112612014-03-14T04:11:04.487-07:002014-03-14T04:11:04.487-07:00Very well written. I can understand completely you...Very well written. I can understand completely your frustration at the lack of foresight about this issue, especially since, like you say, the likes of Silent Spring should have been ringing alarm bells. The decline of pollinators, including bees, will have far-reaching social and economic implications (as much as I hate seeing the world in economic terms) as well as the obvious environmental detriment.<br />There is such much green space taken up by unimaginative, mown grass. I don't understand why most land-owners aren't encouraged to plant wild-flower meadow mixes on land such as grass verges, sections of park lands, urban gardens and so on. I used to work in urban amenity woodlands for the FC, and we had lots of spaces of just overgrown grass and bramble; yes, it's a forestry organisation, but it wouldn't take a lot of effort to seed up open areas and mow them at most twice a year and lift the cuttings. Likewise, I'm sure maintenance costs of managing road verges etc as meadows would be lower than regularly and often mowing grass?<br />As for business interests pushing pesticides - I feel hopeless and depressed at the general lack of morals of businesses interested in pursuing profit at the expense of the environment. Again it's a lack of foresight - do agricultural businesses not realise that even just the economic cost of losing pollinators will far outweigh the loss in profit of not selling pesticides?! Sometimes the economic focus of the world makes me so despondent.Treecologicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02840429730173469128noreply@blogger.com