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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 52 points 1 week ago

So after we kill off all the bees then... not all of the flowers will die, is one conclusion we can take from this? :-|

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[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Just the ones that we need for food, no biggie /s

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 15 points 1 week ago

According to some time travelers (allusion to HG Wells The Time Machine), we'll simply start eating humans.

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[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 16 points 1 week ago

Well, the problem then is that we're not only killing off all the bees but also other pollinators. Although, many plant species are also wind-pollinated and/or wind-dispersed. But good luck feeding all human life with this small selection of species only...

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago

We will have to make meat based plant alternatives.

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

Meat is so energy inefficient that it would never be enough to feed everyone. And the scale of meat production would have to be so huge that we help on climate change quite a bit as well...

[-] unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago

Yup, just the ones that don't produce fruit and mell like rotting flesh...

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago

So, there's that then, to look forward to... :-|

this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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