Bee Population Research Paper

As nations become more developed, the world has demanded more from their environmental resources. Larger populations, with growing 1st world needs, are creating adverse effects on the environment. Some examples of these consequences include: deforestation, air and water pollution, and melting of the polar icecaps. These effects may have a greater impact on some world regions than others. However, there is one environmental factor that is being destroyed and greatly affects the sustainability of all regions: the bee population.

In Kern County, California, Bret Adee is America’s largest beekeeper and maintains over 92,000 beehives. Adee’s bees are in high demand across the nation because of the dying bee population, known as the colony collapse, that risks the sustainability of future generations. The decreasing of the bee population is

Although scientists cannot find one main cause for the colony collapse, there is universal agreement that bees are dying due to human efforts for sustainability. Specifically, scientists believe that factors, such as habitat loss due to climate change and urbanization and the increase of pesticide usage, have contributed to the colony collapse. However, all these factors are rooted in human efforts to exploit the environment. While humans try to meet their current needs of land-use expansion, automobiles, and increasing food yields, they are destroying the sustainability of the future. In other words, as humans continue to be unconservative about their current needs, the bee population decreases; therefore, destroying the environment for future generations. Without a steady bee population, there will be insufficient supplies of food to feed the exponentially growing global population. In the end, the irony is that the human attempts to current sustainability will ultimately damage future