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.
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