One of the world’s most famous scientists made a rather disheartening prediction about our planet before he passed.

The author of The Theory of Everything gave the prediction that we ad about 600 years left.

Before he passed in 2018, he predicted that certain factors, such as population growth and energy consumption could prove fatal for the earth, turning it into a ‘giant ball of fire’, unless we drastically change something.

The physicist shared that the world’s population had been doubling every 40 years, at the time.

He explained, at the Tencent WE Summit at the end of 2017: “This exponential growth cannot continue into the next millennium,

“By the year 2600, the world’s population would be standing shoulder to shoulder, and the electricity consumption would make the Earth glow red-hot.

“This is untenable,”

NASA have also spoken out about the risk of the world as we know it beig at risk: “For more than 50 years, NASA has studied our home planet, providing information to directly benefit humanity and producing observations that can only be gathered in space that address some of the areas that Hawking mentioned.”

The scientist explained to the BBC in 2016: “Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time and becomes a near certainty in the next thousand or 10,000 years.”

He predicted global warming would be at fault, as well as climate change and the greenhouse effect.

Hawking’s also correctly predicted pandemics, artificial intelligence and nuclear war as serious threats to the earth.

Oh, boy!