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Re:MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Sho... by B-Con on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:21PM (#27836445)
"There's a consistent track record of being wrong, we should learn from it" is not garbage, it's the bare minimum for engaging with the topic intellectually and honestly.
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Re:MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Sho... by Daishiman on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:37PM (#27838755)
In that case, we have destroyed about 50% of the earth's natural biomass and we are near the point of depletion of the earth fish stock.

That means that an order-of-magnitude increase in consumption, which would trivially happen is all of the earth's existing population were to have first-world consumption standards, would completely wipe away a sustainable society.

As far as I know, order-of-magnitude reductions in consumption of basic resources while keeping living standards is not something we are anywhere remotely close to achieving.

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