The world today looks very different to the world we remember from six months ago.
We lost a lot of freedom in the first half of 2020, all in a bid to try and halt to the spread of Covid-19.
The whole world shut down in March 2020, and we have been struggling with the repercussions of not being able to leave our homes, see our family, and plan our future ever since.
If someone had told you how 2020 would pan out last year you would have said, 'That will not happen.'
However, should we start getting used to the idea that our world is changing and there's no going back?
And the biggest changes are yet to come?
Environmental commentator John Gibbons joined Mario's Sunday Roast to walk us through an essay getting a lot of traction online.
It outlines the end of human civilisation, decade by decade, starting with the breakdown of life as we know it in the 2020s, to the breakdown of vital systems in the 2030s to the eventual eradication of human life by the 2040s.
The author of the essay, Umair Qaque says, 'The end of human civilization is now easy enough to see, over the next three to five decades. It’s made of climate change, mass extinction, ecological collapse, and the economic depressions, financial implosions, political upheavals, pandemics, plagues, floods, fires, and social breakdowns all those will ignite.'
You can read the full essay here.
Catch Mario and John's full chat by pressing the play button below.
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