Video: How capitalism kills bees
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Several studies, published in the journal Science, touch on the burning and dubious prospects for the continued worldwide decline in the population of pollinating insects on crops, and what this means for the future of the world's food supply.
However, they shed additional light on how the situation has changed over the decades, pointing to issues such as corporate monocultures, the decline of forests and wild lands, and general changes in the landscape as the main culprits in the continuing development of this disastrous trend.
In one study, researchers at Montana State University compared insect data collected in the late 1800s with similar data collected in the same region in the 1970s.
They then pooled current data from the same area for comparison with these two databases, and they ended up finding that the number of unique species of wild bees had been cut by almost half.
However, it is all the more alarming that researchers observe in modern bees a general decrease in interaction with plants, compared with previous generations.
According to them, the total number of interactions between bees and plants has also dropped by about half, indicating a serious problem for food supplies, as about 75 percent of the world's food crops rely on animal pollination.
The second study came to equally disturbing conclusions: pollinating insects in general, that is, the widest range of insects and other animals, are simply disappearing from their normal habitat and feeding area.
Based on field studies in 20 countries, scientists argue that wild insect populations around the world are declining sharply, and that human-created bee colonies to replace wild pollinators are unable to cope with the task of wild bees in many regions.
In landscapes with lower diversity and declining numbers of wild insects, crops are less productive, explains the author of the second study, Lucas Garibaldi.
The pollination method used by wild insects is more efficient: the flower bears twice as much fruit after being visited by a wild insect, and is more stable than a flower visited by a honey bee.
Some blame this mysterious decline in crop pollinators on "global warming" and other external factors.
But the main elephant in this china shop, which the media is desperate to hide, is GMOs and the chemical technologies used to grow them.
As has been reported on numerous occasions, neonicotinoids and other pesticide and herbicidal products are directly responsible for the weakening and death of bees and other crop pollinators, especially in North America, where GMOs are most widely cultivated.
It is quite obvious to us that one of the main reasons for the decline in the population of bees is their consumption of GMO proteins, according to the report on the decline in the number of bee colonies prepared by Brit Amos for Global Research.
The truth is that in such a crisis, organic farming could become rhenium. After all, it ensures the diversity of the ecosystem and preserves the quality of the food produced. But, of course, it is incompatible with the principles of market competition and the profitability of agriculture on a capitalist farm!
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