"If the bee disappears from the surface of the globe, man would have no more than four years to live"

Recent cover story of TIME magazine, The Plight of the Honeybee, is a sobering cautionary tale. Though the root cause for the soaring dying beehives since 2006 is still unknown, the general belief is "We, human beings, may be the culprit". Neonicotinoids, a pesticide probably unharmed to human beings, may be the slow killer to bees. Industrialized and highly efficient monoculture crops are suffocating bees. Highly profitable corn and soybeans have made farmers less incentivized to join the government's land conservation program. A quote (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein) is very apocalyptic: "If the bee disappears from the surface of the globe, man would have no more than four years to live". Though this quote may be exaggerated, it does point to an enlightening epiphany: Any disturbance of the balanced ecology may deal a blow to human beings eventually.