Will farmers be able to produce food fast enough, in order to feed the current population?

Question

...if the honey bees become extinct.

Several Countries are already pollenating fruit trees and vegetable plants by hand, becuase of the extinction of the honey bee. The problem seems to be spreding globally.

Will farmers be able to produce food fast enough, with the aid of bees?...in order to feed the current population?

*with out*

Answer 1

Stony,
No, not even if the honey bees were available everywhere. That's not negativity speaking, but the plain facts. Our planet can support one-half to one million people, on a sustained basis. We are at 6 billion and quickly climbing. The US has more resources than any other country on the planet, so most Americans are totally uninformed about the serious over-population of the world and uneven distribution of resources. The fairly near future will drive people from all over the world into North America in search of food. The famines in the Southern Hemispheres will make what we, as the entire world, have to eat now look like the most selfish, decadent time in history. And it will end.

Confirmation of this can be found from the Zero Population Growth organization, many environmental classes and organizations. I also recommend you read an old, but introductory book called, "Diet for a Small Planet." It has been up dated since it came out sometime near 1970, and many others have more current information. Alibris is a good site I know of for finding older books. You may have to look through several sites for books to find it, but the price shouldn't be much by now.

http://www.zpg.org
http://www.alibris.com

Answer 2

-(2 wheel bar seems to be mistaken;by my
calc his adds-up to about 2.5 billion;what about the other 4 billion?)
Anyway,i would answer yes-if all the honey
bees become extinct then its likely that farmers would be under extreme pressure
to grow stuff; but i also think that that scenario is unlikely,as the unlikeliness of the extinction of the honey bees would be.

The true answer to your question i think is also yes- darwinian and non-darwinian farmers,= all farmers, will "produce food fast enough";if only because we have never
been able to tell when they dont(e.g. in the
potatoe FAMINE in ireland 2 centuries ago,
could anyone say that the farmers did not
produce food fast enough?).
"Darwinism" rarely "looks back" in all these
cases(and why should it,do you think it
"looks forward"?).
Other factors go hand-in-hand with reasons
and explanations to say and report whether
the current population gets enough or more
to eat.
i have introduced "darwinism" because i
think that all the current contributors,to such
an answer to this question,must answer with
this in-mind;besider,honey bees live and of
course die-especially-through-extinction,by
the theory of "darwinism";and also its highly
likely that the predictions of this are made
and will be continued to be made,by
darwinian-trained and motivated scientists
and assessors alike.

Answer 3

First, farmers can not produce more food than the earth can tolerate , that is, it all depends on ecology and climate conditions ... now in reality is that 80% of the population is actualy under nurished , we are the lucky 20% that have some thing to fill our stomachs on a regular basis , and the way we are going it will get worse , and you can take this to the bank ...

Answer 4

Smart question.
Cultivating bee population is also a profitable business of those who have the capital and cares about to gain expertise

Answer 5

No way, dude. There aren't even farmers who can produce enough fast food.

Answer 6

Our food supply will depend more and more on the chemists.

I read, once, many years ago that by 1985 all food will be in pill form.

I can't wait.

Answer 7

yeah if the bankers, seed companys and the government leave them alone and keep their hands out of the farmers pocket.

Answer 8

Well, since there are more overnourished people than undernourished people in the world today, I'd say yes.

More information:

About overnourishment: estimates around 1.6 billion

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/

About undernourishment: estimates around 900 million

http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm
http://www.care.org/campaigns/world-hunger/facts.asp

Answer 9

no because even in the bible 3rd seal farmers wont be able to make enough stuff and things will become scarce