Elon Musk predicts when “the end of humanity’s existence on Earth”

The American billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated that “human civilization will only last a few hundred years if humanity does not think about living between planets.”

Musk responded to a question by American journalist Ed Krasenstein about the end of human civilization, saying:

If we become interplanetary and then interstellar, our civilization will last for millions of years, and if not, human civilization is likely to end in just a few hundred years.

Musk explained that humanity needs to maintain its current technological level so that Mars becomes a self-sufficient place for life, which could, in his view, happen within 20 years.