If you take the hard numbers, then science is clearly telling us that we’re running out of time.

Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to 7 billion people.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.

But in the face of big challenges such as habitat loss, pollution of coastal zones, and species loss, and the high seas collapse of fish stocks, the whole marine realm is becoming rapidly more important,

The situation in oceans around the world is deteriorating, and at an escalating pace,

We've got all these bits of information in different institutions,

We've had a good century of developing terrestrial protected areas, national parks on land,

The problem is that the argument has not been made on the scale of national economies, and that is what we are trying to do.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,