A scientist has made the shocking claim that there’s a 49% chance the world will end in just 25 years. Jared Diamond, American scientist and historian, predicted civilisation could collapse by 2050. He told Intelligencer: “I would estimate the chances are about 49% that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050.”
Diamond explained that fisheries and farms across the globe are being “managed unsustainably”, causing resources to be depleted at an alarming rate. He added: "At the rate we’re going now, resources that are essential for complex societies are being managed unsustainably. Fisheries around the world, most fisheries are being managed unsustainably, and they’re getting depleted.
“Farms around the world, most farms are being managed unsustainably. Soil, topsoil around the world. Fresh water around the world is being managed unsustainably.”
The Pulitzer Prize winning author warned that we must come up with more sustainable practices by 2050, “or it’ll be too late”.
100% it will not, no scientist worth anything would ever make such a moronic claim.
A possibility could be that civilization will end, but that’s not the same as the end of the world, it’s just the end of civilization.
The earth may change in ways that make it uninhabitable for humans, but that’s not the end of the world, “just” the end of humanity.
It’s very hard to take people serious when they make such obviously erroneous (stupid) claims.
Most likely it’s an American, and it’s just USA that will end, because Americans tend to think USA = The World.
I think you’re being, not only pedantic, but also just wrong. “The world will end” is a perfectly apt description to just about anyone about what is going on. The world will be uninhabitable for A MAJORITY of life that currently exists.
Permian extinction: last time shit like this happened, temps rose 10°C over 10,000’s of years. Still killed 90% of ALL LIFE. To be so arrogant as to presume that the USA collapsing would not have any knock on effects on the rest of the world. To presume that what kills of humans would do nothing to any other life. To presume that that scientist is a moron who just LOVES AMERICA so very much, because why else would he say things that make me feel bad?
hat part of what I quoted can’t you read.
That’s not the end of the world either. I described that VERY clearly.
Exactly, and that was not the end of the earth either, even the end of all life on earth is not the end of the earth. You may call it merely semantics, I call it facts.
Your argument is not wrong in the clinical sense. Just in the sense that it is so obtuse and irrelevant that your insistence that it is the only correct way to view things makes me not take you seriously.
He didn’t. It would have taken you five seconds to read the excerpt OP posted and notice that the actual quote is “I would estimate the chances are about 49% that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050.”
He didn’t say the world will end. He didn’t even say that civilisation will end. He said that the social order we enjoy today could collapse. But rather than take five seconds to notice that, you decided to yell about nothing because it was more important to voice your opinion than it was to check your facts.
And for the record, yes, he is American, but he’s also spent a significant amount of his life living and working outside of the US. He wrote Guns, Germs and Steel, one of the most seminal texts on the subject of how civilisations rise and fall. He is literally a globally recognized expert in this field. He’s also hugely responsible for dismantling much of the Euro-centric “I guess maybe white people are just smarter” nonsense that underlies much of the traditional study of history, and proving that the advantages enjoyed today by places like the US were not a product of any inherent superiority but rather of geographic fortune. So no, he really can’t be accused of having any kind of world view that treats America as special, given that he’s devoted most of his life to demolishing that notion.
Dunno if everyone is enjoying that social order. But it’s certainly true that there’s less order than there was 20 years ago.
EXACTLY, so no scientist would make the stupid claim, just as I described, meaning it’s just lousy journalism editorializing what the scientist really claimed.
Do you really think I should have made my post LONGER? Further describing how and why it’s stupid, can you really not see it from the part I described?
No but you could’ve made it much shorter by cutting out the commentary based only on the headline and didn’t read the article.
My comment was NOT based on the headline, read again…
I made a quote from the selected parts OP used!
And disregarding the bullshit I receive for it, my comment is actually factual and correct, contrary to the article and the criticism of my comment.
I quote a part that is CLEARLY in error, as I stated NO serious scientist would write such bullshit.