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The end of the world is closer than we think, according to Stephen Hawking, who made a daring forecast about it and described what will hasten the process.
Nair Joshua,
Stephen Hawking, who passed away, believed that the end of the planet was imminent.
Even though it’s a somber topic to think about on a Tuesday morning, here we are.
One of the most well-known scientists in history once said something terrible about what will happen to us if we keep going in the same direction.
Although Hawking was no stranger to making forecasts about the future, this one stands out as one of his most well-known since it offered us a year to watch.
In less than 600 years, the renowned scientist and creator of The Theory of Everything predicted a dire future for humanity.
Before he passed away in 2018, he said that unless we made a change, factors like population expansion and energy use may turn the Earth into a “giant ball of fire.”
At the Tencent WE Summit in November 2017, the former mathematician from the University of Cambridge stated his prognosis of our imminent demise, stating that the world’s population was doubling every 40 years up until that time.
“This exponential growth cannot continue into the next millennium,” he clarified.
The world’s population would be standing shoulder to shoulder by 2600, and the amount of electricity used would cause the planet to blaze red hot.
In his computer-generated voice, Hawking declared, “This is unacceptable.”
There have been recent reports that NASA has supported Hawking’s scary statements, but the agency has rejected this, as a spokeswoman told Newsweek: “NASA has not made this claim.”
“NASA has studied our home planet for more than 50 years, providing information to directly benefit humanity and producing observations that can only be gathered in space that address some of the areas that Hawking mentioned,” the agency added, expressing concern about global threats to humanity.
Is it too late to change now?
“Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time and becomes a near certainty in the next thousand or 10,000 years,” Hawking previously told the BBC in 2016.
He ascribed this prognosis to the greenhouse effect, climate change, and global warming as the primary factors contributing to Earth’s destruction.
Humanity doesn’t seem to have changed all that much in these areas in the years that have passed.
Given that Hawking identified pandemics, artificial intelligence, and nuclear war as existential risks, the end of the planet might actually be closer than previously thought.
