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Stephen Hawking Prediction About the End Of The World Is Nearer Than We Think
Stephen Hawking’s prediction that the world will end sooner rather than later is becoming reality.
Before he died, one of the most well-known scientists in the world made a fairly depressing forecast regarding our planet.
According to the author of The Theory of Everything, we have roughly 600 years left.
Prior to his death in 2018, he predicted that unless we make significant changes, some factors, such as population increase and energy use, could convert the planet into a “giant ball of fire.”
At the time, the physicist revealed that the world’s population was doubling every 40 years.
He explained at the Tencent WE Summit at the end of 2017: “This exponential growth cannot continue into the next millennium.”
“By the year 2600, the world’s population would be standing shoulder to shoulder, and the electricity consumption would make the Earth glow red-hot.”
“This is untenable,”
NASA has also spoken out about the risk of the world as we know it being at risk: “For more than 50 years, NASA has studied our home planet, 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 scientist explained to the BBC in 2016: “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.”
He said that climate change, the greenhouse effect, and global warming would all be to blame.
Additionally, Hawking accurately foresaw that nuclear war, artificial intelligence, and pandemics would pose major hazards to the planet.
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