Fenner's view of extinction is pretty extreme but another scientis who gets more credilbility everyday is Lovelock who things there will be a cull of over 5 billion humans. The planet is being destroyed by human over-population
Lovelock: 'We can't save the planet' | |
Professor James Lovelock, the scientist who developed Gaia theory, has said it is too late to try and save the planet. The man who achieved global fame for his theory that the whole earth is a single organism now believes that we can only hope that the earth will take care of itself in the face of completely unpredictable climate change. Interviewed by Today presenter John Humphrys, videos of which you can see below, he said that while the earth's future was utterly uncertain, mankind was not aware it had "pulled the trigger" on global warming as it built its civilizations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Vip-PbuZQ | |
Human race 'will be extinct within 100 years', claims leading scientist
Professor Frank Fenner has warned that the human race can not survive
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 helpin
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When I was 10 years old my friends and I would cut down caterpillar nests and put them on ant hills to watch insect wars. This was my first impression of overpopulation and its terrible affects looking at the disgusting caterpillar nests filled with garbage. No wate-to-energy system on Planet caterpillar. I just hope no superior being puts Earth on an anthill or burns the place like orchard keepers do with tent caterpillars.
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