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MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We're on Schedule
Vice ^ | 07/14/2021 | Nafeez Ahmed

Posted on 07/14/2021 8:41:21 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we're unfortunately right on schedule.

A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appears to be accurate based on new empirical data.

As the world looks forward to a rebound in economic growth following the devastation wrought by the pandemic, the research raises urgent questions about the risks of attempting to simply return to the pre-pandemic ‘normal.’

In 1972, a team of MIT scientists got together to study the risks of civilizational collapse. Their system dynamics model published by the Club of Rome identified impending ‘limits to growth’ (LtG) that meant industrial civilization was on track to collapse sometime within the 21st century, due to overexploitation of planetary resources...

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: annieehrlich; civilization; clubofrome; collapse; covid1984; culture; deepstate; economy; genderdysphoria; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; homosexualagenda; johnholdren; limitstogrowth; luddite; luddites; malthusianism; mediawingofthednc; mit; nafeezahmed; nonsense; overpopulation; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; paulehrlich; thebet; thomasmalthus; vice
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To: Jan_Sobieski

BS “study” back during the era when any and all were predicting collapse due to over-population, running out of this or that resource, and NONE of that alarmist BS came true ...

the real danger is the total dependency on an extremely fragile, centralized Internet infrastructure ... should the Internet suddenly collapse, civilization as we know it will suddenly collapse ...

and it’s not that difficult to kill the Internet: simply destroy the dozen or so centers that house the top level DNS servers, centers which are NOT hardened facilities, not even close ... they rely completely on security through obscurity ...

... not only could a determined enemy surreptitiously launch simultaneous ground penetrations with the aim of reducing these centers to rubble, but any country with accurate ICBMs could destroy those centers remotely, and it wouldn’t even take nuclear capability if the missiles were accurate enough ... no need to bomb anything else, just those centers ...

those centers need to be in deep underground bunkers and guarded with military troops 24x7x365 ...


21 posted on 07/14/2021 9:01:44 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Our society may indeed collapse, but not “due to overexploitation of planetary resources.” That’s just environmentalist nonsense. The best book to read on this subject is the late Julian Simon’s “The Ultimate Resource”. The ultimate resource is human ingenuity.


22 posted on 07/14/2021 9:02:53 AM PDT by devere
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To: PersonOfNo Consequence

Wow! What did you think when John Holdren became Obama’s Science Czar?


23 posted on 07/14/2021 9:03:42 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: freedumb2003

“And here I wasted 40 years building a nest egg.”

yep ... just think of all the booze, drugs, and call girls you could have had instead ... total wasted nest egg ...


24 posted on 07/14/2021 9:05:19 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Garbage In, Garbage Out.

These "Studies" show what the people who put together the inputs want them to show.

Essentially, the paper says: Do what I say, or die!

25 posted on 07/14/2021 9:07:59 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: entropy12

I had it and have the antibodies to prove it.

https://i.imgur.com/GVuYqcj.png

Can you provide one rational reason why I should be forced to submit to the “vaccine?”


26 posted on 07/14/2021 9:13:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: marktwain

Same methodology as “global warming.”


27 posted on 07/14/2021 9:14:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
That empires rise and fall has been known for centuries. The difference today is the accelerated pace of the demise due to technological advances.

We're doomed by our own success.

The Course of Empire (paintings)

28 posted on 07/14/2021 9:16:00 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Predictions are always true, so yikes.
/s


29 posted on 07/14/2021 9:17:00 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods ( comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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To: BeauBo

FYI, Apple TV made, and starting in September will broadcast, a series based on the Foundation trilogy. Trailers are out, if you’re interested. I, personally, can’t wait - I just hope that they haven’t made it a PC piece of crap and thus ruined what should be a classic mini-series.

Oh, and we need our own Hari Seldon right now.


30 posted on 07/14/2021 9:17:59 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

The return of the “Limits to Growth” BS. The author and his ideological allies were, even if not Communist sympathizers trying to destroy the West from within, at least technological illiterates. Technological R&D, combined with Capitalism, resolves ALL shortages, and usually quite quickly.

This “study” is abject nonsense, just as it was when written.


31 posted on 07/14/2021 9:20:59 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

They also said we would be out of oil in 20 years.
As of 1972


32 posted on 07/14/2021 9:21:59 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: SaxxonWoods

Malthusian predictions are usually wrong. What is different about these predictions is that the Elites are now in a position to implement “final solutions” to resolve the doomsday predictions


33 posted on 07/14/2021 9:23:43 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Ancesthntr
This “study” is abject nonsense, just as it was when written.

Who on Freerepublic would disagree? But are the Elites not implementing population control?
34 posted on 07/14/2021 9:25:55 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you can prove it, you are good!


35 posted on 07/14/2021 9:31:22 AM PDT by entropy12 ( I am more interested in return of my capital than return on my capital...who said that?)
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To: Zathras

Oh yes, I remember that prediction well!
Because my daily commute to work was 70 miles driving round trip.
They caused me unnecessary fear and consternation.


36 posted on 07/14/2021 9:33:13 AM PDT by entropy12 ( I am more interested in return of my capital than return on my capital...who said that?)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I am waiting for something to spike my life LOL but no such luck, nothing spiked since March 4th, 2021 when I received my 2nd shot of Moderna vaccine.


37 posted on 07/14/2021 9:35:02 AM PDT by entropy12 ( I am more interested in return of my capital than return on my capital...who said that?)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

🤦


38 posted on 07/14/2021 9:37:43 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You should take the vaccine to show your total obedience to the state and the revolution.


39 posted on 07/14/2021 9:42:08 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: freedumb2003

“And here I wasted 40 years building a nest egg.”

~~~

BLM wants your nest egg... and with the help of democrats, they very well might get it too, despite whether or not society officially collapses. BLM has been saying explicitly that the property of white people need to be transferred to people of color. It doesn’t matter that you got up every morning for 40 years and invested legitimate effort and productivity, you don’t deserve what you have ‘earned’ because it was all due to white priviledge


40 posted on 07/14/2021 9:49:55 AM PDT by z3n
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