Einstein's Doomsday Prophecy Quietly Comes True

Einstein's Doomsday Prophecy Quietly Comes True

By Alex Koyfman  Written Thursday, May 12, 2016

More than seven decades ago, the most brilliant mind in modern history made its most dire prediction. It had nothing to do with physics. It had nothing to do with chemistry. It was bigger than any one problem or riddle. And it touched all of us... every last man, woman, and child on this planet. When Albert Einstein spoke the words you see below, it's likely few took much notice: If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. Always a bit of a mad scientist, and well known for rambling and mumbling ideas and concepts that few ever made sense of, Einstein had a habit of losing most people's attention. And back then, the problem he was describing wasn't even a problem. It was a theory... an idea. If the bees vanished, we would, too. Nobody paid much attention to this, because bees had always been just as plentiful as we needed them to be — quietly and reliably doing their job of pollinating the crops we eat and feed to our cattle.