Ignorance!

It seems that not only does the government want to take climate change off the curriculum the education system is all ready failing to impart the most basic details of ecosystem structure and food chain relationships.  For example, the number of people who sighed the affirmative to a survey about whether the summer would be better without bees.

Has nobody explained to these people that without bees fruit trees to not get pollinated so the fruit does not grow?  Has nobody explained to them that bees pollinate the bushes, shrubs, trees and a myriad of other plants that supply our food either directly or indirectly?  Has nobody explained to them that if these plants don't get pollinated then the food doesn't grow?

Am I the only one who has picked up on the fact that 'plant' and 'planet' are only one letter apart?

Without bees there is no food, no tomorrow and no us!  Do we really want to face a world wide famine where people are reduced to eating their children?  Is that what people really want?

Oh yes, I'm sorry, food doesn't come from plants, I've been reliably informed, it comes for the shops.

Excuse my look of utter horrified amazement.  I thought ignorance like this had died out during the Second World War when the evacuees found out that the milkman doesn't magic the milk into those bottles he leaves on your doorstep, he actually gets it out of a cow.

It seems that our education system needs a greater overhaul than we first thought.  That or more of us need to start growing our own food so that people actually start seeing the connection between the bees and the fruit that then grows.

In fact, thinking of the Second World War, I'm pretty sure it is a German company that is now specialising in bee hives that encourage not the great production of honey but the greater area of pollination.  Their history might be screwed up thanks to one man but as a nation they seem to be much more intent of building something good out of the wreckage.  Is that a pock at the rest of us do you think for sitting on our butts and expecting the world just to give up it's riches forever?

As for those of us who want to start helping out the bees so we have a food supply tomorrow I'd say the best thing we can do is eat local organic, ban pesticides from our own land and plant as many flowers as possible.  Apples trees are a good one because then you receive a little something back for the effort you put in.