2600

WHEN THE WORLD ENDS

By: Ghenrietta Von BLOOME

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

It’s easy to imagine destruction at a distance, to envision those cataclysms as a world beyond our grasp, a cinematic reel playing in Technicolor while we sip coffee, our feet propped up on the very essence of nature—divine or mundane, we cannot tell. But who will penalty our blindness? We think ourselves untouchable, unbreakable, cocooned in consumer comforts and the hum of the city, modern civilization playing like a symphony, but—what if it is but an elegy?

What threads tie us to this world, this essence of existence?

According to Stephen Hawking's predictions, by the year 2600, Earth could become uninhabitable and turn into a "giant ball of fire" due to unchecked population growth, energy consumption, and climate change, essentially marking the end of the world as we know it unless humanity takes drastic action to colonize another planet.

"The severity of effects caused by climate change will depend on the path of future human activities," NASA says on its website, adding that "if we can reduce emissions, we may avoid some of the worst effects..."