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Professor Frank Fenner predicted that the human race will be extinct within the next 100 years.

“It’s an irreversible situation. I think it’s too late. I try not to express that because people are trying to do something, but they keep putting it off,” he said.

He further explained by saying that since we humans entered Anthropocene, the current geological period, wherein human activities have a powerful effect on the global environment, we have had an effect on the planet ‘that rivals any ice age of comet impact’.

“Climate change is just at the very beginning. But we’re seeing remarkable changes in the weather already.

“The Aborigines showed that without science and the production of carbon dioxide and global warming, they could survive for 40,000 or 50,000 years.

“But the world can’t. The human species is likely to go the same way as many of the species that we’ve seen disappear.”

The vice-chairman of the Optimum Population Trust, Simon Ross, said: “Mankind is facing real challenges including climate change, loss of bio-diversity and unprecedented growth in population.”