The end, it seems, is once again nigh. According to Professor Frank Fenner of the Australian National University the wheels of our demise are already in motion, and human life will be extinct in roughly 100 years.
Due to our relentless population rise and the increasing onset of global warming Fenner believes that we have already sealed our own fate as a species. “It’s an irreversible situation. I think it’s too late. I try not to express that because people are trying to do something, but they keep on putting it off,” said Fenner.
“Homo sapiens will become extinct within 100 years.” Of course, on the plus side, that means a whole century of oil drilling, tree felling and ice-cap melting high jinks to look forward now we know we are all doomed.
Fenner, a scientist who helped in the eradication of smallpox, believes that the fate suffered by the inhabitants of Easter Island could act as a microcosm of our greed-induced apocalypse. We'll all transform into large, weird, stone faces.
The inhabitants of the island also began with a slow population increase which eventually grew uncontrollably and let to the destruction of the ecosystem and subsequently to their demise, a situation much like the steady growth of the world population before the boom of industrialisation.
“We’ll undergo the same fate as the people on Easter Island. Climate change is just at the very beginning. But we're seeing remarkable changes in the weather already.”
“The Aborigines showed that without science and the production of carbon dioxide and global warming, they could survive for 40,000 or 50,000 years. But the world can’t. The human species is likely to go the same way as many of the species that we’ve seen disappear.”
Forever ain't what it used to be.
Hmmm.. It seems to me that the world has been around for a few billion years. I think that it's good for at least one or two billion more.
quote: "...and let to the destruction of the ecosystem."
shouldn't that be "... and led to the destruction of the ecosystem"?
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There will be tough times ahead for sure but I still believe there is hope techological innovation in sustainability will out pace environmental decline.
It's not going that way yet but the gap may close.
Internment camps are already springing up on U.S. military installations today. Reserve your seat now. And be careful not to get any vaccinations, because they are using those to slowly kill us with.
There is evil everywhere, but greed, even more so. Hatred and death are close behind them. And so...the end is very much near indeed!
I won't miss my human existence when my time is up.
If "death" is so bad, the laws of the universe wouldn't have included it. I ain't afraid of death itself.... just a slow painful process of dying leading up to death.
Scaremongers are everywhere and have been throughout history. This dude's just one of many.
Just remember, THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.
What we need is government incentives for people to have no children, or only one child. Personally I am 52 with no children. I think I should pay less tax because of that! But no, the government of the day thinks that it needs "economic growth" as the answer to all our ills, so it taxes me and gives it as child benefits to people with eight children!! No wonder we are in such deep trouble.
You reap exactly what you sow, in the end.
government are retards.we ARE all doomed,either way.
yes i have no kids either and really dont want to bring a child into this crap WE call life.
all you are is another tax dollar.