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In as little as 30 years, humanity could be wiped out
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
Regular measurements of thermal indicators on Earth show that the planet continues to accumulate heat: thus, global warming continues and even accelerates, and its pace does not allow us to think about positive trends.
A team of independent experts from Australia, which has been working on global climate change for five years, has voiced unfavorable information. It talks about the immediate prospects for people in the next 30 years. According to the authors of the work - and they include leading scientists, public and political figures - humanity is on the verge of self-destruction. Moreover, the critical point may be 2050.
Scientists insist on the only way to prevent the destruction of civilization. But for this, everyone needs to be mobilized to correct climate change on our planet.
The keynote speaker was Australian ex-Minister of Defense, former Admiral Chris Barry, who is known as an active defender of natural resources. He believes that climate change will lead to the strongest negative consequences in three decades, which are difficult to predict in advance, since humanity has not previously encountered such large-scale violations.
Scientists estimate that if global warming does not slow down, the changes will soon become irreversible. As a result, key ecological systems will disintegrate, including the reef system, tropical forests, the Amazon and Africa.
The results will be catastrophic. Billions of people on the planet will be forced to change their place of residence, there will be a shortage of water supply, many regions will no longer be suitable for living. Farming will become impossible, there will be interruptions in food supplies.
The authors of the study insist that the point of no return has almost been reached: the normal biosphere is rapidly being destroyed. "An increase in global temperature by just a couple of degrees will already lead to the need to resettle a huge number of people. And if the warming is even more rapid, the scale of destruction will become even more terrible. We will probably have to talk about the absolute end of civilization," the experts note.
What can help prevent a catastrophe? According to scientists, it is necessary to urgently mobilize the efforts of the entire planetary community and direct them toward slowing down the process of global warming. Researchers compare today's situation with that which took place during World War II. True, today the issue is to counteract greenhouse gas emissions into the global atmosphere, as well as to restore the planet's climate.
The document with the report can be read at docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/148cb0_a1406e0143ac4c469196d3003bc1e687.pdf