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Re:MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Sho... by revscat on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:25PM (#27836516)
Malthus’ predictions were proven incorrect. The predictions of climate models — less rainfall, increased temperatures, less arable land — have proven correct. Not to mention that observable behavior matches those same models. If anything, the models have understated the direness of the situation: both the Arctic and Antarctica are warming far faster than even the most pessimistic models predicted.

You are claiming that because one man was wrong that all men are wrong. That is dangerously absurd.

Re:MIT Predicted Society Will Collapse in 2040. Research Sho... by bmmayer1 on Friday July 16, 2021 @07:40AM (#27855255)
No I'm not claiming that. I'm claiming that there's something to learn from the history of similar claims and examining why the assumptions in them ended up not being true, to help possibly mitigate similar assumptions today.