The End Of The World Will Be In 2040

In 1973, a report aired on Australian television revealed the date of what could be the end of the world as we know it today, due to pollution, based on information provided by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who used one of the world's largest computers.

The Word One program devised by Jay Forrester with the aim of creating a model of global sustainability has set the year 2040 as the fateful date. The data processed by the computer warned about the growth of pollution as a risk factor for humanity, shares the web portal of the newspaper Excélsior.

Furthermore, the countdown began in 2020, the date on which a change will occur, marking the imminent onset of a global disaster.

"The levels of pollution, population growth, availability of natural resources and the quality of life on the planet," the RT portal states as warning factors.

"If we do nothing about it, the quality of life is reduced to zero. Pollution becomes so severe that it will start to kill people, which in turn will cause the population to decline to levels lower than in 1900," the 45-year-old report stated.

"In this phase, around 2040 to 2050, civilized life as we know it will cease to exist on this planet."

And it was emphasized, "In this phase, around 2040 to 2050, civilized life as we know it will cease to exist on this planet."

Why pick up on the story again?

Coincidences led several social network users to relaunch the information. The year 2017 saw an unenviable record in greenhouse gas emissions.

Some countries even experienced temperatures above the usual average. China tops the ranking of countries with the highest CO2 production, its emissions in 2017 exceeding those of the entire European Union as a whole.

Are there red lights? Yes

It recently became known that cities and nations are looking to ban plastic drinking straws and plastic stirrers in the hope of solving part of the global plastic pollution problem.

However, the problem is so serious that scientists say these measures are nowhere near enough.

Australian scientists Denise Hardesty and Chris Wilcox estimate, based on trash collected in U.S. coastal strips during five-year cleanups, that there are about 7.5 million plastic straws on U.S. shores.

For them, that means that between 437 million and 8.3 billion plastic straws are found on coasts around the world.

Annually, more than 35 million tons of plastic waste are produced around the globe, and about a quarter of that amount ends up in the waters.

For every pound of tuna we remove from the ocean, we are dumping two pounds of plastic into the ocean," said ocean scientist Sherry Lippiatt, California regional coordinator for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's marine debris program.

There will be famine in the world

A group of scientists at the University of Washington has warned in a study that climate change will dramatically affect agriculture and could cause famine, reports Eurek Alert. Their research has been published this August 31 in the journal Science.

According to RT, the research suggests that, with rising temperatures, not only will extreme weather events such as droughts and floods become more frequent, but there will also be a change in the animal world that will harm food production.

In particular, hungry insects will increase. The team has calculated that each additional degree Celsius in global temperature will increase losses in global rice, maize and wheat production by 10-25%.

A two-degree Celsius increase will result in the annual loss of more than 200 tons of these cereals, and this is taking into account the constant increase in the Earth's population.

In 2016, a UN report estimated that at least 815 million people do not have enough to eat, while maize, rice and wheat are staple crops for about 4 billion people.

Moreover, these cereals account for about two-thirds of global food intake, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Will we still have time to do something about it?