Einstein's Doomsday Prophecy Quietly Comes True

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.

No Longer Just a Nightmare

It wasn’t until decades after Einstein’s death in 1955 that his forgotten, mostly overlooked doomsday prophecy started to test the boundaries separating theory and reality.

Over the course of the last decade, a silent plague has been quietly eating away at one of our most crucial natural resources.

At some point around the turn of the millennium, beekeepers across the Western Hemisphere began noticing their bee populations dying off at twice the normal rates or more.

In the world’s breadbasket, the American Midwest, bee colony collapse disorder, as it has come to be known, has been responsible for reducing bee populations by as much as 90%.

The first and most direct result of this can be felt immediately by all of us.

With fewer bees to pollinate the crops, the cost of pollination goes up… and that cost is passed right on down to the consumer.

And all of us get to pay higher prices for most of our food products.

It hasn’t hit us that hard just yet, thanks to a significant decline in oil prices (another major factor in the cost of food), but when energy costs begin to rebound… watch out.

But that’s just an immediate effect of this mysterious ecological syndrome. If honeybee population decline continues along its present path, the ultimate result will be the total disruption of human food supply.

And that’s where we run into real trouble, because of the special time in history this strange phenomenon chose.

Nature Has a Way of Controlling Population… Is This What’s Happening?

Right now, the human population is swelling at a rate of 1 billion every 15 years.

Putting that into perspective, 1 billion is the same number of total individuals alive just 200 years ago; so what it initially took 4,000 years of recorded history to achieve, we’re now doing every decade and a half.

And that rate continues to accelerate, even as one of our most important food-producing resources — a resource responsible for creating one in every three of the bites you take — enters an inexplicable and seemingly unstoppable decline.

Famine is already a problem in most developing nations — nations that, by no coincidence, contribute the most to this skyrocketing global population, with birthrates at levels unheard of in the developed world.

The ensuing scenario isn’t too hard to predict: more famine, more war, less of everything we need to keep growing as a civilization.

So yeah, while we’re sitting around and fearing what the next American president will or won’t do with our taxes or our government spending, or vegging in front of the TV on Sunday, lulling ourselves into a contrived, exhilarating sense dread over the prospect of a zombie apocalypse, an actual, real-life doomsday is very casually making its presence known.

Einstein was most famous for visualizing and mentally dissecting the behavior of matter traveling at close to the speed of light — something few people in history were able to grasp without the help of thorough explanation and mathematical modeling.

He did it all in his head or on a piece of paper, without anything resembling a computer.

This scenario, on the other hand, rings true to anybody who takes more than a few minutes to understand the situation.

The theory of relativity ended up being proven through extensive experimentation and testing involving things like rapidly decaying subatomic particles and laser beams fired at reflectors placed on the moon.

And since then, it’s been re-proven countless times. In fact, if Einstein’s math had been wrong, your GPS device wouldn’t function.

Which begs the question: if his most difficult-to-prove theory was that rock solid, how certain is this prediction?

Are we doomed to see and experience it? Is there no way to halt whatever it is that’s causing the first and most important domino to fall?

Not necessarily.

Where Desperation and Genius Collide

First of all, it looks like we’ve finally discovered what’s causing bee colony collapse disorder.

Not surprisingly, it goes back to another government cover-up — one of the oldest on record — fueled by the usual cocktail of corporate greed and corner cutting.

More important, though, is that it finally looks like a solution to the problem has been found.

Are we going to save the honeybees? Well, perhaps not. But if we don’t, we will be able to replace them.

It’s a technological achievement that has much of the agriculture industry scratching its head, but from the looks of things — and I’ve had one of the closest looks one can get at this still-secret, patented technology — it will become the standard in the years to come.

Not only will bee colony collapse disorder cease being a doomsday-magnitude problem, but we’ll get some other surprise benefits, too.

Aerial crop dusting, for example, might become completely obsolete, right along with the chemical fertilizers and pesticides it delivers.

Fruits and vegetables will start lasting longer on store shelves, reducing today’s shocking 40% pre-consumer spoilage rate.

And it all stems from one technology.

As I mentioned, I had a chance to look at this technology right in the lab where it was being developed. I was sworn to secrecy and forbidden from taking pictures.

Today, however, this story has grown too big to keep under wraps.

So here it is in its entirety.

Fortune favors the bold,

Alex Koyfman

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