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1972 prediction of the collapse of society is on track to happen by 2040: Economic growth will halt in decade, food will become scarce and human population will decline, KPMG study finds
2021-07-15
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Models again? At least they won’t grow actual hair on their palms from playing with those.
  • MIT used a world simulation model to learn how our world would fare from 1972 to 2060

  • The model looked at a number of factors such as population, industrial output and persistent pollution, and found a societal collapse could happen by 2040

  • The research was criticized at the time, but an accounting firm analysis took another look at MIT's data and found their stark prediction was correct

  • The recent work shows our business-as-usual mentality will spark a decline of economic growth within the next decade, but a total collapse by 2040
Posted by:Skidmark

#13  I always wanted to be Hari Seldon. I read Asimov's books about the time I was learning physics and just loved the idea of knowing the equations of history. Probably more statistical mechanics than Newton's Three Laws, but still... hey, maybe we could train a neural network!
Posted by: SteveS   2021-07-15 22:22  

#12  Hari Seldon wannabees?
Posted by: Raj   2021-07-15 21:29  

#11  Aren't the costal cities supposed to be flooded by now. Oh and everything above the Canadian-US border locked in a huge glacier age!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-07-15 14:17  

#10  Like Nuclear Fusion we have always been "We are doomed 20 years from now!"
Posted by: magpie   2021-07-15 13:51  

#9  
Say you are an Uber level Elitist with lots $$$$$.

What steps would you take to ensure you and yours continue to be in control?

Maybe? Like buying massive amounts of land with rivers for mini hydro-power plants, in northwestern/ mid-western states. Then setting up enclaves (principalities) in remote but well armed controllable locations?

Whom has been doing that a lot in the last 20 years?
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-07-15 07:19  

#8  If Dominion voting machines are not outlawed and the election process is not cleaned up, this really is a likely outcome.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-07-15 05:09  

#7  Club of Rome BS. We were all supposed to have starved by now.

No doubt the only way to avoid our fate is (as always) to willingly enslave ourselves.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-07-15 05:01  

#6  Relax Chris. we need nabobs of negativism here from time to time.
Posted by: Spoter B   2021-07-15 01:52  

#5  ^^ what kinda shit is this?
Posted by: Chris   2021-07-15 01:32  

#4  Your Foo Ling U-self - UR in it now - Economic growth will halt, food will become scarce and human population will decline < Happening NOW -Started 2021 ---3rd year "inflation" 18% 2021 - Stock Market Nuts -2020 - Governments Nuts & Out of Control -2020 ----Wake-Up Pilgrim --- The 1% Natives have the Pot on High and you are their Meal !!!!
Posted by: Chusing Grumble7392   2021-07-15 01:28  

#3  If you read the headlines on today's Rantburg, one would think 2040 would be a best case scenario. Try 2030.
Posted by: Spoter B   2021-07-15 01:01  

#2  Dateline Jan. 22, 1901: Queen Victoria dies ending "Society as we know it"
...or at least as some Europhiles and Anglophiles see it.
Posted by: magpie   2021-07-15 00:36  

#1  Douglas Murray responds to research saying civilization will end this Century: 'Futurology' has flawed history
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-07-15 00:06  

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