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What If Bees Went Extinct? šŸ

Bees pollinate 75% of the world's food crops and contribute $577 billion annually to global food production. Without them: almonds, apples, coffee, avocados disappear first, then clover collapses dairy and meat production, then 90% of wild plants die, then ecosystems cascade into collapse. Scientists measure this in decades.

Colony Collapse Disorder has been killing colonies globally since 2006.

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00:00What if every bee on earth disappeared tomorrow?
00:03One in three bites of food you eat only exists because of bees.
00:08Almonds go first, then apples, cherries, blueberries, avocados, coffee.
00:14Clover disappears next, and clover is what cattle eat.
00:19No clover.
00:20No alfalfa.
00:22Dairy collapses.
00:24Meat prices explode overnight.
00:26Then, the wild plants go.
00:28Ninety percent of them need pollinators to survive.
00:31The animals that eat those plants start to vanish.
00:34Then, the predators that eat those animals.
00:36Humans survive on wheat, rice, and corn, stripped of almost everything else.
00:41Scientists say decades, not centuries, not thousands of years.
00:46Decades.
00:47The most important creature on earth is one we step on without thinking.
00:50And we are losing them right now.
00:52What do you think?
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