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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".

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[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

That's WAY later than I thought!

This is cause for celebration! 🎉

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

yep, sounds like we can start worrying about that in about 20 years then.

[-] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Not sure if you're celebrating because that's earlier than you thought, or later than you thought...

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Extra time! I wouldn't have given us 5.

[-] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

I think it's easy to forget the scale and momentum of the thing.. But yeah, the longer we go without scaling back our energy and resource consumption the harder we're gonna hit that wall.

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