it will end sooner than we think.
One of the most famous scientists of all time once made a damning statement about our future, if we continue on our current course.
Hawking was known for making predictions about the future, although this is one of the most famous, as it gave us a year to watch out for.
The famous physicist and author of “The Theory of Everything” predicted a bleak scenario for us in less than 600 years.
“Giant Fireball”
Before he passed away in 2018, he explained that factors such as population growth and energy consumption they could turn the Earth into a “giant fireball” if we didn’t change something.
The former Cambridge University mathematician explained his prediction of our impending doom at the Tencent WE Summit in November 2017, as he revealed that world population until then doubled every 40 years.
He explained: “This exponential growth must not continue into the next millennium.”
“By the year 2600, the world’s population will stand shoulder to shoulder, and the consumption of electricity will make the Earth ‘glow.’
“This will be intolerable,” Hawking said.
It was recently reported that Hawking’s chilling claims have been backed up by NASA, although he has since denied itas a spokesperson told Newsweek: “NASA has not made this claim.”
But the space agency is concerned about global threats to humanity, adding: “For more than 50 years, NASA has been studying our planet, providing information that directly benefits humanity and making observations that can only be gathered in space and concern some of the areas mentioned by Hawking’.
Is it too late to make a change?
Hawking previously explained to the BBC in 2016: “Although the probability of a destruction of planet Earth in a given year can be quite lowadds up over time and becomes almost certain in the next thousand or 10,000 years.”
He attributed this prediction to global warming, climate change and the greenhouse effect as the main causes that will bring the Earth to its destruction.
In the intervening years, it doesn’t look like humanity has changed much in these departments.
The end of the world may actually be closer than previously predicted, as Hawking also pointed to nuclear war, artificial intelligence and pandemics as existential threats.
With information from ladbible
