vue - Noah Wilson-Rich: Every city needs healthy honey bees
Bees have been rapidly and mysteriously disappearing from rural areas, with grave implications for agriculture. But bees seem to flourish in urban environments — and cities need their help, too. Noah Wilson-Rich suggests that urban beekeeping might play a role in revitalizing both a city and a species. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector
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I am convinced this approach of "boosting bees" is a costly short-term solution that will make things worse and worse in the future, as we continue to reduce the potential for natural selection on kept bees. And what does that mean? We can kill bees as much as we want with new pesticides that are also toxic for wild solitary native bees (and stop to improve things for those as well), because we can somehow compensate honeybee losses. That kind of treatments also makes beekeepers life more complicated and I don't like adding poorly studied substances inside the hive. Where are the colony level field studies? Most of bee researchers are still studying packages of bees kept in the lab in very artificial conditions.
Also, keeping bees in an urban environment is not a solution. You will get more toxic particles in honey because of car pollution. This has been showed on tomatoes kept on balconies in a big city, it won't be any different for honey. And why do we need bees? To produce honey and pollinate crops. We don't have that many crops in the cities that require lots of pollination (are you planning on planting canola on a roof? I'd like to see that). What about honey production? Will you bee able to produce different kinds of honey in the city? Will you produce enough? What about pollution?
No, all those solutions you are talking about are not enough. I like the idea of putting a few hives and crops in the city, it's nice for a scientist to study that and you are a very good speaker, but your talks give the impression that putting bees in the cities and feeding them proteins and probiotics is the main solution. Consider comparing the number of hives inside the cities (and the maximum hive capacity of cities) and the number of hives in rural areas. I don't think your projects are relevant. -
Jeez. we could at least put solar panels on the roofs of skyscrapers
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how was a talk this good only receive 1.2k view sigh sigh though a cost analysis for a individual would have been nice to see
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Noah you are a very engaging speaker. I'm going to ask my colleague at work who keeps bees in his garden about doing it myself.
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