Eric Ramirez

30401 Florence St.

San Diego CA, 92113
ericoctavio08@yahoo.com

Environmental Protection Agency
75 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105


Dear EPA:

I am writing you this letter because I am concerned that our crops are not being pollinated by
bees. By this happening we lose money and will not have enough money to maintain the crops.

As you may know, we need you to save the bees because the bees pollinate about 70% of 100%
crop species that feed 90% of the world, especially honey bees. Honey bees are responsible for
30 billion dollars a year in crops. To save the bees we can accomplish this by using a less
harmful pesticide. Bee colonies leave their hive because of the harmful pesticides. Bee
researchers think it is the pesticides that trigger CCD (colony collapse disorder). Other countries
banned pesticides, but they are still available here in the U.S. Plus if bees were extinct it would
cost us about 2.92 billion dollars every year to hand pollinate crops. By not doing so, we may
lose all plants that bees pollinate; all the animals the feed off bees, and so on up to the food
chain. Which means a world without bees could struggle to sustain the global human population
of 7 billion. Our supermarket would have half the fruits and vegetables we have today.

Therefore to improve the world we should get rid of pesticides and other harmful viruses. I hope
to have your support in this regard and to see progress in the near future.

Sincerely,


Eric Ramirez