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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 February 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 January 2025. Scientific projections regarding the far future Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see List of numbers and List of years. Artist's concept of the Earth 5–7.5 billion years from now, when the Sun has become a red giant While the future cannot be predicted with certainty ...
Don't Panic — The Truth about Population is a 2013 documentary about human overpopulation produced by Wingspan Productions and The Open University for the BBC as part of the This World series and presented by Swedish statistician Hans Rosling of the Gapminder Foundation.
Assume, for simplicity, that the total number of humans who will ever be born is 60 billion (N 1), or 6,000 billion (N 2). [6]If there is no prior knowledge of the position that a currently living individual, X, has in the history of humanity, one may instead compute how many humans were born before X, and arrive at say 59,854,795,447, which would necessarily place X among the first 60 billion ...
Last year was Earth’s hottest in recorded history, the European Union’s climate agency announced Tuesday, confirming what scientists have been expecting — and dreading. The E.U.’s ...
World population has been rising continuously since the end of the Black Death, around the year 1350. [72] The fastest doubling of the world population happened between 1950 and 1986: a doubling from 2.5 to 5 billion people in 37 years, [ 73 ] mainly due to medical advancements and increases in agricultural productivity .
Visionaries of 1925 made their best guesses about the 21st century. Predictions included world peace, food shortages and 150-year-old people.
A year prior to the film's release, Max Ehrlich published the science fiction novel The Edict, based on the screenplay. In the novel, the earth's resources have been strained to the limit, and in many parts of the world, cannibalism and food riots are commonplace. Seeking a solution to this crisis, the leaders of WorldGov meet in emergency session.