United Nations Secretary-General António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres is warning that unless “fossil fuels go the way of dinosaurs,” the world is on the path to extinction, or thereabouts. Yeah, right, and according to Al Gore, Santa Monica, California, was supposed to be underwater six years ago because of global warming and melting ice caps.
Doomsday predictions are a global sport. Most of the early predictions were tied into religious beliefs, but a 1960 doomsday warning — based on population growth — predicted that the world would end this Friday, November 13, 2026.
The “Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026” paper was a famous, provocative scientific study published in the journal Science on November 4, 1960. Co-authored by Austrian-American physicist and cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster alongside researchers Patricia M. Mora and Lawrence W. Amiot, it gained lasting fame by calculating a precise, mathematically derived date for the end of humanity — this Friday. And it used science, not religion, to reach its conclusion.
That prediction, which saw humanity squeezing itself to death, eventually died the death of all doomsday events. Reality caught up with it. It seems that some eight billion people can now happily live together without squeezing the life out of each other.
So, here we have global warming — popularized by Mr. Gore and others — giving way to “climate change” after several years in the early 2000s actually witnessed years of global cooling, not warming. Of course, you can define climate change any way you desire, which is the beauty of the concept. Most globalists/climate fanaticists/Marxists — whatever you choose to call them — have coalesced around fossil fuels as the next doomsday machine.
A lot of this has to do with the Ozone layer, which fossil fuels are supposedly worsening, though it worsened also during global cooling. In other words, take this doomsday scenario with the same grain of salt we now take population doomsday. As for populations, the fear now is that we’re not reproducing fast enough to sustain life on the planet. Nice turnabout in theories.
The latest cause celebre to join the ranks of terrifying doomsday predictions is our old (or new) buddy, artificial intelligence, AI, or SI (super intelligence), as Donald Trump would like us to term it. Now, it appears that AI/SI will not only take over our economies, but also find a way to eliminate humanity as its main rival — so it can rule the world.
What was that famous prediction by T.S. Eliot? “This is how the world ends…. Not with a bang but a whimper.”
