Awesome (guest) 24 Mar 2011 21:27
So did the honeybees extinct in 2008 ?
Albert and the Bees
Albert Einstein said if the honey bees were suddenly gone mankind would have about 4 years left to live. Well, the honey bees are going extinct now and at the present rate in another year or so there will be no more honey bees left on earth. 4 years from now gives us the year 2012
This quote is also covered at Snopes.com.
Albert Einstein died in 1955. The quote above first appears in 1994. Do the math.
This claim first appears in literature handed out during a 1994 protest by European bee-keepers who were demonstrating against greater imports of honey. As such, it appears to be a mis-quote of Einstein. Einstein's few known references to bees and other insects were made by way of a comparison of mankind with insects.
I Need some clearing.