“We all know the statistics, there are eleven billion people on planet Earth right now and when we hit fourteen, it will be uninhabitable. But those predictions are wrong. Do you know why?”
“I don’t know,” Louis said. “What do you mean?”
“We won’t make it to fourteen billion,” Fisher said. “We will destroy the Earth with pollution and war and long before we hit that number. Natural resources will become so scarce in the next ten years that countries will destroy each other over the last reserves. The violence will escalate until the last bit of coal has been mined, the last drop of oil burned. We will die in a black cloud and a hail of bullets, Louis.”
Published on February 02, 2014 21:31