World Bee Day

20th May

‘One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.’

Leo Tolstoy

‘To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,

One clover and one bee,

And revery.

The revery alone will do,

If bees are few.’

Emily Dickinson

Bees are under threat of extinction and we need them as much as they need our ethical intervention. Bees and other pollinators maintain the ecosystem, 80% of plants rely on them. If bees die out, nature will malfunction, impacting on food crops, wildlife and the abundance of nature.

We can save the bees by returning to nature in every sense of the word. Adopt flowering plants. Avoid harmful chemicals on crops, plants and lawns; wildlife, animals and humans are all at risk. Invest in green spaces. Nurture nature. A real lawn will have clover which should be allowed to flower. Artificial grass and concrete are destroying the ecosystem bees help maintain.

As with most natural and ethical disruption, humans seem to only act when the risks have a direct impact on their pockets. If bees become extinct and crop sizes reduce; the price of food will increase. Imagine poverty on a world scale due to the lack of ecological education and artificial lifestyles we prefer to develop.