Anyone noticed that bees getting rare?

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by August

Disagree with this. Man does a lot to help the planet and there would be many species that would disappear without our support.

Disagree. Most species currently dying or having brought to exticntion during the past 400 years - are dying or have died because of us. Now we try to save some individual animals here and there in local, well-meant initiatives, but this does not make up for the simple fact that although species have died in huge quantities in the past of Earth (during the cosmis Blitz, during the two major iceages, after that assumed damn meteor struck earth and killed all dinosaurs), today a new death race of species is underway which is exclusively caused by man's impact on global conditons. The speed and pace of global extinction of species is many times, multiple times faster than it was ever before during the current geological age of Earth. No, August, we do not help species not to disappear - we make them disappear. we do not do a lot to help the planet - we do a lot to destroy it. Scientists estimate the current man-made speed of extinction of species to be 100 - 1000 times faster than the usual background process of natural/evolutional selection.

For the record, only 2 million zoological and botanical species are known today. It is expected that 5 - 30 million species currently exist on the planet.