Humanity Is Doomed – We have 1,000 Years To Leave Earth And Colonize Another Planet – Says Stephen Hawking

MessageToEagle.com – Can you imagine humans living on another planet in 1000 years? If Stephen Hawking is right, we must begin to set up colonies as soon as possible or we won’t survive as a species.

In other words – we must start looking for another home now or we are doomed!

Our planet is facing serious problems and the overpopulation problem is widely debated among several scientists.

In our article A Look Into The Future: Can Planet Earth Support 10 Billion People? we discussed how experts say we can solve Earth’s and humanity’s problems, but it seems that many people doubt the “massive behavior change” solution to be a realistic approach. We need something stronger, something more convincing.

According to experts, the Earth’s sustainable human population is around 2 billion people.

Humanity currently consumes resources at a rate 50% faster than our planet can produce them.

That is to say that in a 12-month period, humanity consumes an amount of resources that it took the earth 18 months to produce.

This unsustainable level of consumption will only increase as the world’s population continues to rise.

So what can we do? Is space the solution? Must we colonize another planet in order to survive?

According to renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, humanity will only be able to survive on Earth for about 1,000 more years.

“We must continue to go into space for humanity,” Hawking said at a medical conference in Los Angeles recently. “We won’t survive another 1,000 years without escaping our fragile planet,” he added.

Hawking, 71, has long been a proponent of space exploration.

He compares modern space exploration with European voyages to the America’s 500 years ago.

“Spreading out into space will have an even greater effect. It will completely change the future of the human race and maybe determine whether we have any future at all,” Hawking said.

But there is a major obstacle – namely funding. Space exploration has been struggling with the global financial crisis and has too proven subject to spending cuts. In particular NASA’s planetary science budget, which is seen as crucial to finding habitable planets, was slashed by $300 million this year.

Fifty years ago, Hawking was diagnosed with the neurological disorder while a student at Cambridge University.

He recalled how he became depressed and initially did not see a point in finishing his doctorate.

If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way, he said.

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