Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Predictions regarding the arrival of Doomsday have always been a terrible specter. One of the popular ones is about the possibility of Doomsday occurring in 2026 or in the next two years.
Doomsday predictions do not only come from astrologers or certain tribes, but also from world experts from various scientific fields.
Economist and demographer Thomas Malthus gave a warning about the end of the world on Earth. He said this event would occur if humanity continued to reproduce.
Because, over time the food supply will not meet the needs of the human population. However, every deadline he predicted proved wrong.
This is because increasingly sophisticated technological developments are able to increase food production more quickly for an increasing number of people.
In the modern era, predictions about the end of the Earth have been echoed again by physicist Heinz von Foerster from the University of Illinois. He predicts that the end of the Earth will occur in 2026, quoted from Time, Monday (18/3/2024).
Foerster's theory was developed in the 1960s based on calculations of human population growth. With an uncontrolled pattern, Foerster said the apocalypse will occur in 2026 or 2 years from now.
According to him, in 2026 the human population will reach the maximum limit that planet Earth can bear.
Foerster calculated with complicated mathematics by adding many factors. For example, large-scale disasters such as nuclear war, the formation of a cooperative world society, the development of technical methods that produce unlimited food supplies, and others.
“Intelligent populations will annihilate themselves. Our children and grandchildren will not starve. They will be squeezed to death,” he said.
Furthermore, he said that even though food production technology is becoming more sophisticated, it will not be able to exceed the speed of human birth.
The number of humans skyrocketed throughout the 20th century from 3 billion in 1960 when Foerster made his prediction, to 8 billion today.
Foerster said that if humanity wants to avoid the apocalypse, then the government must intervene to control the increasingly rapid population rate.
One of them, he said, could be by issuing a higher tax policy for families with more than two children.
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