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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

“Soylent Green” was 1973 : The Coming Ice Age : AlGor’s Anthropogenic Global Warning/now Climate Change : Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick

Rene Richards to Jody Dallas to Rachel Levine

The Who to Fly, Robin, Fly to “Disco Demolition” to YMCA at Trump Rally’s

The world is an ever changing, bright and beautiful place.

Now, . . . Get Off My Lawn!


41 posted on 07/14/2021 9:52:14 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuitss)
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To: Jan_Sobieski; All; blam

Well, that doesn't look so bad! More food than people, lots of industrial output due to robots doing our jobs, pollution WAY down to shut up the ever-whining Greenies and by 'resources' I'm hoping they mean that those of us in the game have bought up all the physical gold and silver. ;)

42 posted on 07/14/2021 9:55:59 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Let us not get facts in the way of doom and gloom.


43 posted on 07/14/2021 10:05:47 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: entropy12

What flavor koolaide you drinking?


44 posted on 07/14/2021 10:07:18 AM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
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To: cgbg; E. Pluribus Unum

No he/she does not. So long as he has anti-bodies running around in body, not likely to die from extreme covid sickness.

However in some situations, such as boarding a cruise ship, there is a limited time between when boarding starts and the ship sails. And they must check in thousands of passengers in that limited time. They check your ID, register your credit card, issue you a cruise card, etc. Now we have the covid pandemic situation going around. A vaccination document check is quick. To perform an anti-body test is neither quick or inexpensive. So it makes practical sense to require vaccination documents.


45 posted on 07/14/2021 10:12:10 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: exnavy

Here is my kool-aid routine keeping me tip-top physical shape,
no pains or aches anywhere, no prescription meds of any kind required.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I55ZxIwbuOU

I highly recommend this kool-aid. Even the experimental vaccine with spike proteins has been unable to hurt me after 5 months.


46 posted on 07/14/2021 10:15:12 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: Oatka

plandemic


47 posted on 07/14/2021 10:16:47 AM PDT by NEBO (Pandemic strikes deep Into your life it will creep starts when you're always afraid step out of line)
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To: BeauBo

I’ve also seen the movie. Spoiler alert: Soylent Green is people.


48 posted on 07/14/2021 10:24:28 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: entropy12

Well, good for you.


49 posted on 07/14/2021 10:29:17 AM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
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To: entropy12

We don’t have a pandemic. We have an act of biological warfare that is 99.8% survivable. The average age of the dead is 80, median age 78, most obese with comorbidities.

I pray to God that the Chinese torture you to death in appreciation for your aid in helping them take over the USA.


50 posted on 07/14/2021 10:43:30 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: E. Pluribus Unum

I personally know of 2 people in their 40’s who died a horrible death from covid, isolated in a plastic tent, connected to ventilators because covid had destroyed their lungs.

Yes the average age of 78 in US deaths was of little consolation to them.

I had the 2nd shot of vaccine on March 4th this year. I am age 81. Not the slightest problem so far from the vaccine. It was a big nothing burger for causing problems.


51 posted on 07/14/2021 10:51:38 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

“Every aborted baby used in vaccines will stand in judgment on this generation.”

No aborted baby parts were used in developing or producing the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines - one of the many advantages of the mRNA approach.

Pfizer and Moderna testing specifically excluded the use of cell lines, that were originally sourced from a human fetus. None were used at any stage, for any purpose related to those vaccines, by either Pfizer or Moderna.

I recommend avoid bearing false witness, after having been told.


52 posted on 07/14/2021 11:02:21 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: entropy12

People died of the flu every year before now, some of them just as young as who you say.

Shouldn’t you have been out shutting down the world then?

You’re a useful idiot that does whatever the gaslight press tells you to do.

I pray to God that you reap what you have sown.


53 posted on 07/14/2021 11:05:48 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

No credibility otherwise so lead with MIT...


54 posted on 07/14/2021 11:06:35 AM PDT by TonyChris (Didn't vote for Amazon in last election)
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To: BeauBo
The experimental gene therapy vaccines are not completely innocent (excerpt from. https://www.health.nd.gov/sites/www/files/documents/COVID%20Vaccine%20Page/COVID-19_Vaccine_Fetal_Cell_Handout.pdf )…

“Early in the development of mRNA vaccine technology, fetal cells were used for “proof of concept” (to demonstrate how a cell could take up mRNA and produce the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein) or to characterize the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.”
55 posted on 07/14/2021 11:12:03 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Ancesthntr
"Apple TV made, and starting in September will broadcast, a series based on the Foundation trilogy."

How do you get Apple TV?

56 posted on 07/14/2021 11:13:47 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Hmmm….

When the left “predicts” something, count on them planning and implementing it.


57 posted on 07/14/2021 11:23:41 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith……)
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To: metmom

Exactly!


58 posted on 07/14/2021 11:30:24 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: entropy12
I personally know of 2 people in their 40’s who died a horrible death from covid, isolated in a plastic tent, connected to ventilators because covid had destroyed their lungs.

Venting someone will do that to them.

And they were given early intervention treatment instead of being sent home until their lips were turning blue and they couldn’t breathe. Right?

And they had no comorbidities, right?

And it proves what exactly? Are you going to tell us that you know for a fact that if they had been vaxxed, they’d be alive today?

59 posted on 07/14/2021 11:34:50 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith……)
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To: catnipman

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

I still have a little bit of time. If I can only convince Mrs. FD to go along with it...


60 posted on 07/14/2021 11:37:21 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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