CETAPIS-NEWS: 5/07/2013. Nota da Redaçao: Um noticiário de nome FRACTURED PARADIGM publicou em 17/6/2012 uma reportagem interessante sobre o significado do desaparecimento das abelhas ( If Bees Go Extinct, This is What Your Supermarket Will Look = Se as abelhas desaparecerem, isto é o que o Super Mercado aparentará ) tendo mostrado duas cenas : na primeira mostra um Super Mercado com as gôndolas de frutas repletas de frutas polinizadas pelas abelhas e na segunda as gôndolas vazias devido a falta das abelhas como polinizadoras. Essa é a consequência do CCD ou Desaparecimento das Abelhas que vem ocorrendo em quase todo o mundo devido ao uso dos pesticidas Neonicotinoides. If Bees Go Extinct, This is What Your Supermarket Will Look Like BY FRACTURED PARADIGM – JUNE 17, 2013 POSTED IN: FEATURED, PESTICIDES & HERBICIDES, POPULATION CONTROL Help spread the word: Over the past decade, bee populations have been dropping, partly as a result of a disease called colony collapse disorder. This is very bad news for humans, because bees are a crucial part of the reproductive cycle of many of our favorite foods, including apples, onions, avocados, and more. This incredible data visualization shows what you’d lose if the world lost bees. Whole Foods created this image (see full image below) to make an important point that many people miss in discussions about extinction. When a life form goes extinct, it can also cause knock-on extinctions in its ecosystem. Without bees to fertilize fruit and other crops, we lose many species. That’s what it means to be part of an ecosystem in the first place: other life forms depend on you, just as you depend on them. There are a lot of theories about how to bring bees back from their population collapse. One is to reform bee care practices, allowing queens to have multiple mates, creating hives with more robust genetic diversity. Another is to study whether there are microbial changes causing colony collapse — perhaps from viruses or gut bacteria associated with toxins in the environment. In other words, paying attention to environmental problems is becoming a purely selfish issue. Protecting vulnerable species keeps fruit and vegetables on the table. Original article by Annalee Newitz for i09 Help spread the word: Read more: If Bees Go Extinct, This is What Your Supermarket Will Look Like fracturedparadigm/2013/06/17/if-bees-go-extinct-this-is-what-your-supermarket-will-look-like/#ixzz2YDV9zFOd
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