The famous scientist predicted the catastrophe in 1972, arrived in Belgrade and said: “The end of the world will happen in 2020” (PHOTO)

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“Around 2020, there will be a sharp decline in population growth and the extinction of animals and plant vegetation. The inhabitants of our planet will suffocate in smog around 2000, and a large percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will make the sea level rise. The world will be plagued with cancer. ” .

This ominous prediction of the general state of our planet in 1972 at the Belgrade symposium for chemists was made by the then famous professor and scientist John Bockris of Flinders University in Australia.

In Belgrade, according to Vecernji novosti’s then-writing, Bokris avoided using catastrophic terms like “apocalypse”, “doom” or “end of the world”, but said exactly that between the lines, referring to 2020 in particular.

In the text later published by YugoPapir, it is easy to see that back in 1972, an unsympathetic 21st century was announced in Belgrade, which could easily precede humanity if it does not reduce global pollution and positively affect the climate.

John Bockris was a guest of the Serbian Chemical Society and told the meeting that he had no illusions that his warnings were taken seriously.

Prediction, photo: Yugopapir / Večernje novosti / Index

– People in the world do not understand each other. Unless urgent measures are taken to prevent air pollution, around the year 2000, the people with oxygen cylinders on their backs will not be astronauts or underwater divers, but residents of big cities. Heavy industry has long disrupted the centuries-old relationship between carbon dioxide, that is, plants, and oxygen, because the daily amounts of gas released into the atmosphere by vegetation on earth cannot be transformed into oxygen. The creation of “dirty dew”, which, by the way, is increasingly in the atmosphere, will drastically affect weather conditions in the near future. Already around 2000, the polar climate will begin to descend towards the warm meridians, said the then prophetic John Bockris.

The Australian scientist and professor spoke, among other things, about increasing earthquakes, floods and hurricanes.

– Various chemical changes occur in the atmosphere that affect temperature and climate in the polar regions. Due to them, the ice will surely melt and the sea level will rise. Around 2020, the seas and oceans will expand significantly and their level will rise by a whole meter. To clean up the polluted atmosphere around our planet, it takes at least 50 years to apply the new technology in heavy industry, Bokris said, while Večernje novosti’s text was written by Mića Adamović and Mirjana Lukić.