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Despite a 1960 doomsday prediction, the world won't end today
According to a 1960 prediction, the world's population was supposed to become impossibly large, triggering the end. (Unsplash: Rob Curran)
According to a prediction three scientists made in 1960, the world was due to end today.
This "doomsday" was supposed to come not with a bang or a whimper, but from too many people.
The scientists had calculated that on Friday, November 13, 2026, the world's population would grow so quickly as to be near infinite.
"Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve to death," they wrote in a paper published in the journal Science at the time.
Instead, in many countries, population decline is seen as a more serious concern than population growth.
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“On Nov. 4, 1960, the journal Science published ‘Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026,’ which concluded that world population would race toward infinity on that date.”
A month later it became fodder for Walt Kelly and a subject for 3 days of Pogo.
If I had seen those strips back when they originally ran, I’m sure that I would have cut them out and saved them to check the accuracy of the prediction. Unfortunately, at that time I hadn’t even been born yet.
P.S. A quick check of the world’s population by year shows that the prediction was for the number to double (from 3 billion to 6 billion). That actually happened 28 years ago (in 1998), the current estimate for 2026 is 8.3 billion.
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