During the mid-90’s, In Central China in an apple growing region called Maoxain County, the bees that habitually occupy this area did not return one particular year and apple farmers hired humans to fill the void and pollinate all of the apple trees by hand. Because the humans did an extraordinary job at pollination the crops it yielded the largest crop of apples that has ever been seen. By employing humans to ensure the work of pollination was completed, …show more content…
This story remains closely related to Ecosystem services. There are significant welfares for us as human beings that come healthy ecosystems. There exists an exchange by bees and humans, (bees receive the short end of the deal), and there exists healthy benefits humans obtain from honey, and the pollination of flowers and trees that use the carbon humans exhale, in exchange for oxygen that people breathe. One could argue this exists as an example of humans assuming that we remain as the center of the universe or Anthropocentric, because humans intervened and assumed the position of the bee. However this falls more in line with Ecocentric, due to the fact that the bees remain as a part of the natural order of the environment, alike humans are. Although romanticism and transcendentalism are similar, this situation leans to transcendentalism and Ecocentric due to the natural order of the environment. Humans are to subdue nature and realize humans are a part of a bigger ecological system. Humans are to surpass nature. My ten year old loves “The Bee Movie” and towards the end of the feature film, after Barry Benson sues humans and bees stop pollinating, and stop production of honey, opened my eyes to the effect that could have in our food chain. If there was no pollination, there would be food vanishing from the food chain, along with that there would be other animals that would also vanish. This could drive the price of fruits, vegetables, honey, and numerous other meats since it becomes scarce. The Market Response model demonstrates this precise