We are used to it. Nostradamus For his predictions, which never came true, but now not the sixteenth. He lived as an astrologer in the ninth century. The subject is one of the predictions of the court physician of King Charles of France.
For some mysterious reason, the Spanish newspaper Marca decided that it was time to prepare for the Science magazine. respected American magazine Article 64 years agoIn the November 1960 issue of the publication, which is considered a standard in the world of science, three scientists, Heinz von Foerster, Patricia M. Mora and Lawrence W. any He talked about the fact that if the population growth trend, which was studied two thousand years ago, continues,
On November 13, 2026, the Earth will reach the point where the world will end.
The theory of the three scientists is somewhat reminiscent of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. An English economist and demographer who lived at the beginning of the twentieth century, Thomas Robert Malthus According to which increasing prosperity leads to a population explosion that in turn leads to disaster, impoverishment of humanity and ultimately its extinction.
So, sixty-four years ago, von Foerster and two fellow scientists, using various mathematical models, came to the conclusion that the end of the world would come on November 13, 2026. That means we only have two years and two months left.
Scientists have extrapolated, or projected into the future, population growth trends recorded over the past two thousand years, and believe that the exponential rate of human reproduction will reach a point on November 13, 2026, when the systems that enable survival simply cannot bear the heavy load and collapse. In other words: there is no longer enough food to feed the population.
There is no doubt that in connection with climate change, which could not even be predicted 64 years ago, millions will be forced to leave the sub-Saharan region, which has become uninhabitable, but at the same time, von Foerster and his colleagues did not count on the fact that the population growth rate will decrease over time and that the Earth's population will reach almost ten billion people.
This is the number of lives our planet can easily support.
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