Colony Collapse Disorder

[MagmarFire]

Do you think it could be possible, thought, that God uses evolution as a tool for creation?

[Rev Rabies]

That was my point exactly

[MagmarFire]

Works for me, I guess. :D

[Commodore Axilon]

Depends on when exactly you think life started. If you take the Bible literally, then 6,000 years isn't enough time for evolution to do much of anything.

[Fishalicious]

What was that quote from Jurassic Park?

"Life will find a way."

Humans are made to adapt-that is the sole reason we are here today. We have civilizations in deserts, in tundras, in cramped cities, and on islands.

You must realise that as a population, we will have to "even out" at some point, as we cannot simply keeping growing at our exponential rate.

This does mean that some people will die. It's not a big deal-if you've ever noticed, wolf packs and deer populations grow with each other-more deer, wolves make more babies. Less deer, some wolves die off, and the deer population bounces back.

The same could hold true with our honeybees and us, though I find it highly unlikely. As others have said, bees aren't the only thing to pollinate. Birds, bats, people, wind, water, animals...

[Takun]

We have to remember that pollination is also achieved trough humans. We learned in science that humans have done research involving the pollination in which they take pollen from one flower and can simply put it in another with successful results.

I may sound like an total you-know-what when I say this but, I agree with the fact that the human race could use some thinning. If the honey bee "pandemic" causes a huge loss of food that in turn causes death, unfortunately this may be necessary.  And if you believe in God then maybe it's his way of telling us to stop "doing the do" for a while.

As with the calender, I agree with the idea/fact that if they were alive today it would have gone on.

Also, we could live of of fish, a great example is Japan. They dont completely live of of fish alone but a huge part of their economy profit, culture, and diet revolves around the sea.
And as disgusting as it may sound, there are always bugs. Discovery Chanel claims that if bugs were some of the only food left then we could go quite awhile living of of them.

[darkphantomime]

Do you honestly, realistically think that humans can pollinate HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS, even TRILLIONS of plants on their own?

The reason Honeybees are so integral to the pollenization process is because they are the most efficient at the job.

[Takun]

Actually JQ, I do. Think about how desperate the human race will get once they learn that either we can do this, or die.
And it's not like we have to pollinate EVERY flower. Wind does its part, so do other natural things. We just would need to do our part in my opinion.

[Darth Wyndisis]

Also with honeybees you can have more random mating of plants so that increases the genetic variation of plant species.

[Takun]

Again, why rely solely on honeybees for this? Its been done by humans before.

[darkphantomime]

And Genetic variation within a species is pretty damn important when we're talking about the survival of a given species.

[Takun]

Like previously stated, sacrifices may need to be made.
A new species of flower or the survival of 1/3 the human race.

[MagmarFire]

I feel so ignored... :'(

Again, a reduction of one-third of the food supply does not mean that one-third of the human population will die of starvation. I cannot make this any clearer.

[Takun]

I know, I was actually just being overly dramatic  ;)

[Keaton]

Wow man, reading this thread is reminding me of The Happening.