As the scientist who helped eradicate smallpox he certainly know a thing or two about extinction.
And now Professor Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, has predicted that the human race will be extinct within the next 100 years.
He has claimed that the human race will be unable to survive a population explosion and ‘unbridled consumption.’
Fenner told The Australian newspaper that ‘homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years.’
‘A lot of other animals will, too,’ he added.
‘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 putting it off.’
Since humans entered an unofficial scientific period known as the Anthropocene – the time since industrialisation – we have had an effect on the planet that rivals any ice age or comet impact, he said.
Fenner, 95, has won awards for his work in helping eradicate the variola virus that causes smallpox and has written or co-written 22 books.
He announced the eradication of the disease to the World Health Assembly in 1980 and it is still regarded as one of the World Health Organisation’s greatest achievements.
He was also heavily involved in helping to control Australia’s myxomatosis problem in rabbits.
Last year official UN figures estimated that the world’s population is currently 6.8 billion. It is predicted to exceed seven billion by the end of 2011.
Fenner blames the onset of climate change for the human race’s imminent demise.
He said: ‘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.’
Retired professor Stephen Boyden, a colleague of Professor Fenner, said that while there was deep pessimism among some ecologists, others had a more optimistic view.
‘Frank may well be right, but some of us still harbour the hope that there will come about an awareness of the situation and, as a result the revolutionary changes necessary to achieve ecological sustainability.’
Simon Ross, the vice-chairman of the Optimum Population Trust, said: ‘Mankind is facing real challenges including climate change, loss of bio-diversity and unprecedented growth in population.’
Professor Fenner’s chilling prediction echoes recent comments by Prince Charles who last week warned of ‘monumental problems’ if the world’s population continues to grow at such a rapid pace.
And it comes after Professor Nicholas Boyle of Cambridge University said that a ‘Doomsday’ moment will take place in 2014 – and will determine whether the 21st century is full of violence and poverty or will be peaceful and prosperous.
in the last 500 years there has been a cataclysmic ‘Great Event’ of international significance at the start of each century, he claimed.
In 2006 another esteemed academic, Professor James Lovelock, warned that the world’s population may sink as low as 500 million over the next century due to global warming.
He claimed that any attempts to tackle climate change will not be able to solve the problem, merely buy us time.
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We absolutely deserve it for fucking it up big time! but who’s going to own responsibility for this inevitable demise!
I love this guy! Just not happening fast enough in my opinion. Wish the disgusting human race would be wiped off this planet this year. Can’t stand people with every fiber of my being.
You bunch of cretins you fall for it everytime this is what they want (NWO) to fight one another. Research Sorcha Faal aka David Booth. This a COINTEL PRO job.
omg what is wrong with all of you? white people are deamons? white people will kill us all? its because of stupid comments like that that we are all gonna die. not by mass extition or white deamons, but by stupidity!
Black skin is the mark of satan.
god damn all of you Africans are so freaking stupid – name one African nation that is the richest nation in the world? you can’t because blacks are NOT HUMAN & HAVE NO SOULS
Most Africans are to busy with reprisals and rape and murder.
White devils are coming to kill and enslave you and humanity!!
Fight The White Satanic Beasts!!!
how does it feel to be an asshole?
Just be worried to live right. Good sense to do the right things to you and the ones around you. Do not worry too much about dying but living. If we are doomed, live goodness and die knowing u did ur best, if not, live goodness and make it better for you and all around.
So who is going to record this for the future inhabitants???? Who’s going to write the new bible?? I doubt we would become extinct but we will be thinned out and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I know of a lot of people that don’t deserve to live right now. This won’t happen in anybody’s life time that’s alive right now so fuck it, enjoy and consume as much as you can while you can. Just remember Karma.
We are all going to pay!!!!
Philip.L seems to me a non serious person. Do not abuse poor Africans. Let them breed.You may take care of yourself. You don’t have any right to abuse them at all.
Africans are like rats and cockroaches. They can breed faster than any famine, war or plague can kill them.
Whites are not like demons – they are demons!!!
This is in a century. In about 3 years, Japan or China will invent something to eliminate the acid rain, diminishing food, and polution all together. I’ve been there and have seen what amazing things go on there. If no one else is going to step up, I’m sure that Japan, China, and the rest of us that DO NOT believe this will take care of the over dramatic people that are just trying to scare us. Sad. We won’t diminish, we won’t “evolve” as people have said, technology will though.
Thank God we will no more alive to see this situation at the time of “The End of Life”.
Frankly, looking at what we’ve done to this earth, maybe it’s best for this planet that we are an extinct species. I hate to quote the Matrix here (Groan) but, the way we operate is very much parasitic at best, we don’t contribute to this planet, we’re simply using it to a degree that it cannot renew itself on.
Mother nature will take care of us. I guarantee it.
I suppose the only way to prevent this is a nice big war!
Don’t we normally have a big war or two every century or so?
Common, the rich wants to make some money again… after all, war is profitable.
Zarky — Actually, according to a great book called “Generations” (by Strauss and Howe) America has been in a huge, defining war every 80 or so years — American Revolution, Civil War, and then WWII. So we’re about due for another one around 2020, but will it be internal (like the Civil War) or external (like WWII)? That’s the question.
GOOD! FUCK THE HUMAN RACE!
Roger that & Amen – Man is the most dangerous animal and the biggest gossiping piece of shit! AMEN!
Grow up you sad people!
The only reason we will become extinct is because of greed. The young people unable to afford to have children. There are more over 50 than anyone else and soon they will all die off… so who will be left? not many children as the ones who could of had children can’t afford it! Or through greed again, the over 50’s want to travel around the world again and polute the air. They have no concern for the even distribution of wealth or families.
Families break down and the men can walk away without penalty whilst the famale suffers and also the children! now tell me if this is not a selfish world now than what else do you call it?
There should be more laws to protect family life and have good standards for children but there is no money so parents work all hours just to pay rent to the over 50’s.
I see pockets of very wealthy and communities of poor. I see the man wants money, woman and children but does not have to earn this.
I see woman suffering as a result of greed but finally I see a revolution of fairness. All the greedy dinosaurs will be lonely and wished they could still control the world and worry the people but they will just be alone with no control
:-D
Mission Accomplished!!!!
Considering there is no end in site to this disastrous pollution to the gulf with a deadly toxic oil/dispersent cocktail, spreading ever further daily, & where to next , I fear the worst for our planet & its species,
The tragic turn of events in the last few weeks, a nightmare, turned into a hell on earth.
I totally agree with your prediction Smokes, attached a link worth a read:
http://www.forgottenagesresearch.com/prophecies-and-portents-series/Gulf-Oil-Spill-Mega-Disaster-Now-UnfoldingDid-Nost.htm
:roll: what ever.we can adapt.dummy.soil will be foul with acid rain from oil among other things.use your brain.ooppssss,according to your comment you dont have one. this oil will poison the worlds crops and kill ALL species!so prepare to die.and enjoy the rest of the little time we have left.go out at night look at the stars,sunrise,sunset. enjoy the world now while you can.every city in the u.s.a. will eventually look like parts of empty harlem n.y. and new orleans..god help us..repent now!!
if overpopulation is going to kill us, wont the resulting underpopulation correct the problem?
Excluding a nuclear disaster of immense proportions,
I highly doubt that humans will go extinct. our population may dwindle down to mere millions, but not extinct.
We are an extreemly resourceful and adaptable species, can stay warm using fire, are omnivorous, know how to grow food and can fish/hunt with tools. none of the amimals that had gone extinct had these extreme advantages, or stokpiles of canned/dried food.
On second thought, if we do get wiped out down to small numbers and regress to below the capacity for industrial production, there will be no medications or vaccines.
I also think he has it partly right. The WHITE race will be gone within 100 years. It’s the other races which are breeding at an unsustainable rate while whites are barely meeting their own replacement numbers world wide.
You sound like a white devil!!!
The professor only has it partially right, we will all be dead within 10 years: the root cause stupidity!!!
The root cause of human extinction will be white peoples’ worldwide evil and murder of everyone and everything!!
Global warming is ANOTHER white devil lie!! Climategate!