12-19-2017, 07:06 PM
Sustainable living matters a lot. We don't have to live for now alone and forget the future generations to come. So any practice that is detrimental to the environment should be shunned and better alternative should be adopted, even if those alternatives are less profitable. In apple and pear orchade in China, the trees are pollinated by humans because most of the bees that would have done the job have been killed by pesticides and there is lack of natural habitat for the bees. Imagine what will happen if the world's bees die off. About 75% of all crops require pollination by bees and other species. The whole human beings in the world cannot do what these pollinators are doing, yet we kill them everyday with pesticides. If all the pollinators die, we'll have to depend mainly on wind pollinated crops like wheat, corn and barley.
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How can we solve this problem? Studies have shown that planting strips of wild flowers on the farm and leaving patches of natural vegetations like forest can greatly increase population of pollinators. It will also increase population of natural predators that kill pests, reducing the need for pesticides. This is just one of the many ways to help our pollinators.
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This is easier said than done, but governments have to do sth about it.
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How can we solve this problem? Studies have shown that planting strips of wild flowers on the farm and leaving patches of natural vegetations like forest can greatly increase population of pollinators. It will also increase population of natural predators that kill pests, reducing the need for pesticides. This is just one of the many ways to help our pollinators.
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This is easier said than done, but governments have to do sth about it.