London – The end of the world has been put back by at least 50 years by a team of British scientists.
A doom-laden US study in 1972 predicted that the earth would run out of food and resources, becoming uninhabitable by around 2050.
Now scientists at Anglia Ruskin University’s Global Sustainability Institute have claimed we have a little more grace – until the end of this century, or the year 2100.
To come to their conclusion, the team updated the 1970s computer model used to predict how finite the Earth’s resources are. Aled Jones, co-author of the study in journal Sustainability, said: “They made a good attempt in the 1970s but it might have been too pessimistic.
“The limit is pushed back to the second half of this century.”