Future timeline of Earth

*2020
**Global oil production is expected to peak.
**World population is expected to reach 7.6 billion people.
**Flash floods are expected to increase in all parts of Europe.
**18 percent of the world’s coral reefs are expected to be lost due to climate change.

*2036
**India is projected to overtake China as world's most populous country.
**April 13 — Close approach to Earth by asteroid 99942 Apophis. The 20-million-tonne object has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting the Pacific Ocean or the western United States near Denver, Colorado on Easter Sunday.

*2037
**January 31 — Near-Earth object 2002 OD20 will make a close approach to Earth.
**June 29 — Near-Earth object 2002 LT38 will make a close approach to Earth.

*2040
**World population will reach 8.5 billion people.
**Arctic Sea could become ice-free during the summer.

*2043
**The U.S. is projected to reach 400 million in population.

*2044
**May 18 — Near-Earth object 2002 QF15 will make a close approach to Earth.

*2050
**Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program, "warned of a global collapse by 2050 of all species being fished, if fishing continues at its current pace."
**Scientists have warned that by 2050, the bonobo, chimpanzee, elephant, gorilla, orangutan, polar bear and other important species will be extinct in the wild if current trends continue.
**World population is projected to reach 9.4 billion people.

*2100
**12% (about 1250) of the bird species existing at the beginning of the 21st century are expected to be extinct or threatened with extinction.

*2150
**World population is projected to reach 9.7 billion.
**World coal supply presumed to peak.

*2183
**World populatiuon expected to reach 10 billion.

*2880
**March 16: Predicted potential impact date for asteroid , the near Earth object with the highest known probability of crashing into Earth, with 1/300 chance.

*c. 1,000,000,000
**The last total solar eclipse on Earth will occur.

*c. 3,000,000,000
**The Andromeda Galaxy and our Milky Way Galaxy are predicted to collide.

*c. 6,500,000,000
**The Sun will become a red giant and any remaining life on Earth, and possibly Earth itself, will be destroyed.

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