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A professor famous for predicting the imminent demise of the human race at regular intervals since the 1970s has predicted the imminent demise of the human race.
Paul Ehrlich, who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, says it's definitely on this time. In a tinned statement issued on Friday, the arm-waving prof lays it on the line:
There is no longer any doubt: We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity's existence ... the window of opportunity is rapidly closing ...
"[The study] shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event," Ehrlich said ...
"If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover, and our species itself would likely disappear early on," said lead author Gerardo Ceballos.
The original article can be found at The Register, with coverage of the cited study coming from ScienceMag.org
Original Submission
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @03:47PM
i agree with your assessment. the future you describe is the future to worry about. depending on how far in the future things start to go to hell in a hand-basket, those rich people, in their artificial habitats (space castles), will have a few human servants around and an army of AI robots guarding the perimeter. sometimes the AI robots will perform crowd-control duties when the population gets a little too revolting to the king of the space-castle.
once the world's human population is way down and we have mastered building artifical habitats here on earth, we will begin building them on other worlds (space colonialism).