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2007-04-23, 08:01

Albert Einstein was purported to have calculated that without bees, man would have approximately 4 years to live on earth, because there are many food-bearing plants that cannot be artificially pollinated. And it's not only that we won't have nearly as many plants to eat but the livestock won't either. I don't know what current estimates look like but you know it can't be a large number of years, based on a population of 6 Billion people. To start with, it's been said at even 3.5 Billion people is barely sustainable over the long haul, under normal conditions... you start doing the math and things get a little hairy.

Is there any chance this has something to do with Africanized honeybees killing off European and S. American hives? I know that was a concern for a while there... although if we're talking commercial hives then that would be evident right away I suppose.

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