[Star Traveler]

You said — “So I’m guessing the free market can’t solve this problem, right. Grow the food in a controlled environment and use a machine to cross pollinate or do some gene splicing or something. Sheesh.”

Well, there was some world-renowned scientist (can’t recall his name right now, but I thought it was amazing coming from him) — that said if the bees were to disappear, in three years the world would be starving.

They haven’t disappeared yet, but it sounds as if they’re going pretty fast — and it’s worldwide, too.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"Well, there was some world-renowned scientist (can’t recall his name right now," this guy? or this guy?

[Red Boots]

Well, there was some world-renowned scientist (can’t recall his name right now, but I thought it was amazing coming from him) — that said if the bees were to disappear, in three years the world would be starving.

I read this, and thought it hysterical hype to the extreme. I don't care who said it.

Life existed all across North AMerica, and flourished, without honeybees, which were introduced by early European settlers. Go out and check your flowers some time, lots are visited by other insects, and these other insects will fill the niche.