Technology is killing bees
From 1972 to 2006 there was a remarkable reduction in the number of honeybees in the US. Honeybees play a very important part in our ecosystems. If we loose our bee population, it will be disastrous to the economy and ultimately to us. Many fruits and vegetables such as almonds, apples, avocados, blueberries, cantaloupes, cherries, cranberries, cucumbers, sunflowers, watermelon and many other crops rely on bees for pollination.
Experts believe that the cause of the decline in the honeybees population is mainly due to technology. Basically TV remotes, mobile phones, laptops, computers, video games, DVD players, gadgets and every other equipment using chips produces radiation. The radiation isn’t strong enough to cause damage to us humans but imagine something as tiny as a bee. They are exposed to the radiation in parks, your backyard, flower fields, essentially everywhere.
People think that it’s a problem that we should be able to fix but unfortunately it’s not possible yet. First of all, ecosystems are complex, possibly too complex for even experts to be able to understand all the connections and actions and interactions that takes place within them. If we do not know what will happen if something changes, we are taking a very high risk if we allow something to change.
This is something that will happen to the entire planet at the rate we are using technology these days. It’s just sad that the environment has to pay the price for our mistakes. I hope that we won’t reach the extremity of replacing honeybees with pollination robots in the future because that’s another animal extinction that we will be responsible for.
