What systemic measures are necessary and should be taken to protect bees from massive bee poisoning in the framework of intensive, unsustainable, profit-maximising agriculture without taking into account long-term negative impacts on the planet's biosphere and climate?

As part of intensive, unsustainable, profit-maximising agriculture with no regard for the long-term negative effects on the biosphere and the planet's climate, large quantities of pesticides and other plant protection products are used, often to maximise crop yields, by farmers who do not take into account the negative effects of this practice, resulting in, among other things, the mass extinction of bees and other pollinating insects. Bees and other pollinating insects are being poisoned by the use of pesticides and other plant protection products, which are poured on to fields in excessive quantities and often also during the daytime during the hours when the sun is at its highest, i.e. when most pollinating insects are feeding on the plants. It looks as if the mass poisoning of pollinating insects is not being taken into account at all in the spreading of pesticides on agricultural fields, and therefore that, thanks to such practices, in a few years' time there may no longer be enough of these insects to pollinate flowers in agricultural fields and orchards. Paradoxically, globally, three quarters of arable land is used to produce arable crops, which do not directly produce food for humans, but feed for livestock, whose livestock production, which is also mainly carried out in an unsustainable, intensive, production model, consumes large quantities of water, which is also beginning to run out over increasingly large areas, and generates large amounts of methane released into the atmosphere, which is a powerful greenhouse gas, several times more potent than CO2. Another paradox is the systemic support of agricultural development through a system of non-refundable financial subsidies per hectare for all farms, including those that produce plant and animal crops in a model of intensive, unsustainable agriculture carried out under a profit-maximising formula without taking into account the long-term negative effects on the planet's biosphere and climate. This means that systemic support is generally supported as part of a short-sighted strategy, a strategy of planning the development of agriculture on a year-by-year basis or at most on a scale of a few years at most, taking into account the production cycles of specific types of plant or animal crops. As the system of non-refundable system subsidies for agricultural production does not generally take into account the type of agricultural model, i.e. it also supports intensive, unsustainable agriculture and livestock breeding with many negative effects on the planet's biosphere and climate, so requiring more work, inventiveness, innovative approaches, pro-climate and pro-environmental awareness, etc., sustainable organic farming is developing very slowly. Sustainable organic farming continues to develop slowly, and this despite the fact that this sustainable agricultural formula produces healthier, chemical-free crops, produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions, generates many times fewer negative impacts on the planet's biosphere and climate, and poisons pollinating insects with pesticides that are not used many times less. And yet, if this relationship of 3/4 of the acreage of arable land being used for animal feed and only 1/4 being used for direct human food production were reversed, many global problems would be solved and many positive effects would emerge. The problems that would be solved are hunger and malnutrition in many regions of the world. Positive impacts are in the conversion of livestock farms to crop farms: a reduction in water use and the scale of water scarcity; a large reduction in greenhouse gas emissions which is particularly important as globally livestock farms are responsible for more than 1/4 of greenhouse gas emissions according to various estimates; the possibility to reduce the scale of crop production intensity to avoid overproduction and thus the possibility to switch to a model of sustainable crop organic agriculture; an improvement in the quality of the crop produced under sustainable crop organic agriculture and thus the possibility to produce much healthier food for humans; a significant reduction in the use of, or total abandonment of, pesticides and other chemical plant protection products, thereby halting the mass extinction of bees and other pollinating insects; a reduction in the scale of application of artificial fertilisers, which from the fields also end up in surface, subcutaneous and groundwater, resulting in environmental pollution, pollution of lakes, rivers and, as a consequence, also resulting in water pollution of seas and oceans, contributing to a change in the chemical composition of the water of many natural aquatic ecosystems, a negative change in the composition of the species of flora and fauna in these aquatic ecosystems, a decrease in the level of biodiversity, etc.; and The following are just a few examples of the benefits of this type of farming: more possibilities to convert a productive farm into an agri-tourism farm based on sustainable organic farming; more possibilities to develop small-scale agriculture; more possibilities to use low-quality and depleted soils for afforestation; more possibilities to create different types of green areas to separate fields and reduce the scale of soil barrenness, sand storms, soil water retention, etc, greater possibilities for relocating part of the population of large urban agglomerations to the countryside, and greater possibilities for running home flower gardens in which highly biodiverse ecosystems made up of various types of grassland and woodland plants, including shrubs and trees, additionally installed insect houses, apiaries for bees and, in the absence of pesticide use, etc., would provide an excellent environment for insects to thrive. would be an excellent environment for pollinating insects and would halt the years-long trend of rapid decline in bee and other pollinating insect populations.

In view of the above, given the numerous synergies, interrelationships and dependencies occurring between the above-mentioned factors, the change of agricultural model to a more pro-environmental, pro-climate and, in the long term, with a view to the next generation of people, also more pro-social one, i.e. the change of agricultural model to a more sustainable one, i.e. the change of agricultural model to a more sustainable one. In view of the many interconnectedness of the many factors involved in changing from non-sustainable, production-intensive agriculture and livestock farming to sustainable crop-based organic agriculture and the many positive effects on the biosphere, the climate, the maintenance of biodiversity and consequently on people, it is essential to take a forward-looking, long-term strategic planning and management approach, starting as early as the ministerial and system level. Without the application of a systemic approach already from the highest level of governance, i.e. the level of central institutions, government ministries and agencies and international organisations dealing with agriculture, the process of the necessary green transformation of agriculture will not be realised efficiently and effectively and in a timely manner. Time is of the essence when it comes to the implementation of the green transformation of agriculture, as the process of global warming is accelerating, the negative effects of climate change such as increasingly frequent and permanent droughts and forest fires are acting on an ever-increasing scale, the scale of environmental pollution is still high, pollinating insects continue to die out en masse, the level of biodiversity of the planet's natural ecosystems continues to decline rapidly, etc.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What systemic measures are necessary and should be applied to protect bees from their indiscriminate poisoning as part of the pursuit of intensive, unsustainable agriculture carried out under a profit-maximising formula without taking into account the long-term negative effects on the planet's biosphere and climate?

What is your opinion on this?

What is your opinion on this subject?

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I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Warm regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz