‘Irreversible Collapse’ Of Human Civilization Within 20 To 40 Years – Physicists Warn

Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com – Physicists have just completed a gloomy report predicting an “irreversible collapse” of human civilization within 20 to 40 years.

There are many threats to our civilization, but the greatest threat may come from humans themselves. According to this recent study, there is a 90 percent chance of catastrophe, and the collapse of our civilization within just a few decades.

So, it is possible to avoid it and what has humanity done wrong?

The paper written by physicists from the Alan Turing Institute and the University of Tarapacá, indicates one of the world’s greatest problems is deforestation.

“In the last few decades, the debate on climate change has assumed global importance with consequences on national and global policies.

“Irreversible Collapse' Of Human Civilization Within 20 To 40 Years - Physicists Warn

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Many factors due to human activity are considered as possible responsible of the observed changes: among these water and air contamination (mostly greenhouse effect) and deforestation are the mostly cited. While the extent of human contribution to the greenhouse effect and temperature changes is still a matter of discussion, the deforestation is an undeniable fact.

Indeed before the development of human civilizations, our planet was covered by 60 million square kilometers of forest.

As a result of deforestation, less than 40 million square kilometers currently remain,” researchers write in their study.

Dr. Gerardo Aquino, a research associate at the Alan Turing Institute in London, and Professor Mauro Bologna of the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Tarapacá in Chile who are behind this study, state that if we continue destroying and degrading the world’s forests, Earth will no longer be able to sustain a large human population.

The two researchers explain that if the rate of deforestation continues, “all the forests would disappear approximately in 100–200 years.”

“Clearly it is unrealistic to imagine that the human society would start to be affected by the deforestation only when the last tree would be cut down,” they write.

“Calculations show that maintaining the actual rate of population growth and resource consumption, in particular forest consumption, we have a few decades left before an irreversible collapse of our civilization,” the paper concludes.

“In conclusion our model shows that a catastrophic collapse in human population, due to resource consumption, is the most likely scenario of the dynamical evolution based on current parameters…. we conclude from a statistical point of view that the probability that our civilization survives itself is less than 10 percent in the most optimistic scenario.

Calculations show that, maintaining the actual rate of population growth and resource consumption, in particular forest consumption, we have a few decades left before an irreversible collapse of our civilization,” reads the paper.

Written by Cynthia McKanzie – MessageToEagle.com Staff Writer