Yes. While we cannot stop global warming overnight, or even over the next several decades, we can slow the rate and limit the amount of global warming by reducing human emissions of heat-trapping gases and soot (“black carbon”). Once this excess heat radiated out to space, Earth’s temperature would stabilize.

Without bees, they would set fewer seeds and would have lower reproductive success. This too would alter ecosystems. Beyond plants, many animals, such as the beautiful bee-eater birds, would lose their prey in the event of a die-off, and this would also impact natural systems and food webs.

Put simply, we cannot live without bees. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that pollinators like bees and butterflies help pollinate approximately 75 percent of the world’s flowering plants. They pollinate roughly 35 percent of the world’s food crops—including fruits and vegetables.

Albert Einstein is sometimes quoted as saying, “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.” It’s highly unlikely that Einstein said that.

Here are a few easy ways you can help #BeeTheSolution.

1. Plant a Bee Garden.
2. Go Chemical-Free for Bees.
3. Become a Citizen Scientist.
4. Provide Trees for Bees.
5. Create a Bee Bath.
6. Build Homes for Native Bees.
7. Give Beehives and Native Bee Homes.
8. Teach Tomorrow’s Bee Stewards.

Read on For 20 of Our Best Actionable Ways to Help You Stop Climate Change in 2020:

1. LEARN HOW TO RECYCLE PROPERLY.
2. Support Women & Educate Girls.
3. USE Renewable Energy Sources.
4. Green up Your Commute.
5. Eat Less Meat.
6. Keep Calm and Plant Trees.
7. Become a veritable Mr(s).
8. Use Less Plastic.

What solutions to consider? Changing our main energy sources to clean and renewable energy. Solar, Wind, Geothermal and biomass could be the solution. Our transport methods must be aligned with environmental requirements and reduce their carbon footprint.

The evidence is clear: the main cause of climate change is burning fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal. When burnt, fossil fuels release carbon dioxide into the air, causing the planet to heat up.

Government research and development programs, such as the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy, can drive progress in clean energy technologies and bring them to commercial use. Voluntary programs, like the Natural Gas STAR program, work with businesses to reduce emissions, often with public recognition.

Recycling helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing energy consumption. This avoids greenhouse gas emissions that would result from extracting or mining virgin materials. In addition, manufacturing products from recycled materials typically requires less energy than making products from virgin materials.

By reducing air and water pollution and saving energy, recycling offers an important environmental benefit: it reduces emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons, that contribute to global climate change.

The Pros and Cons of Recycling

• Pro 1: There’s an environmental benefit.
• Pro 2: Recycling creates jobs.
• Pro 3: Recycling raises overall environmental consciousness.
• Pro 4: Recycling reduces the energy used to manufacture goods.
• Con 1: Recycling takes energy, too.
• Con 2: Recycling can lead to pollution.