A new study by a director of one of the world's largest accounting firms, KPMG, reveals that a 1972 model by MIT researchers predicting the collapse of society in the 21st century looks to be worryingly on track, a report by Vice explains.
The 1972 model, called World3, was created in the '70s using empirical data, and it was published in a book called 'Limits to Growth'.
Essentially, the model aimed to answer the question of what would happen if humanity keeps pursuing economic growth, no matter the societal and environmental cost? It concluded that, without drastic change, industrial society was headed for collapse.
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This whole argument has real liberal vegan energy. Just the idea that personal decisions are something that matter removed from societal context.
People have kids, it's a normal function of life and society. Especially because right now we still have surplus food production in most prosperous and moderately prosperous nations. People either have kids because they aren't starving or because they need labor power. Ideology has nothing to do with it.
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Present conditions are significantly more impactful on decision making than future conditions. Even when those future conditions are pretty clear.
E.g. every day millions of people get in cars even though they know that it will lead to thousand of them dying.
our ancestors bred for farm hands, we are breeding for post-apocalyptic communist super soldiers responsible for creating a new mankind from the ashes of the old
Shit happens. And fine for you but it seems the alternative is to give up hope and just end human existence, which is way more depressing to me than explaining our predicament to my daughter and trying to prepare her for it.
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I don't mean human existence would end because we'd stop reproducing but it's more of a mindset. If I thought that depopulating the Earth was the way to solve climate catastrophe, I'd probably have to be an ecofascist and encourage genocide. That's just me though.
And yes, people are wildly unconcerned; mostly the chuds who are popping out children to preserve ytness.
Society has collapsed numerous times throughout earth's history. We're only here today because someone DATEDIFF(NOW(), collapseDate)/365.25 years ago decided to have a kid even though the Roman/Mayan/Indus River Valley empire was in the midst of collapse