Anyone else believe that the end of the world will come in 2030 due to resource limitations?
They've been extremely accurate regarding all of their models.
The model is based on five variables: world population, industrialisation, pollution, food production and resources depletion. These variables are considered to grow exponentially, while the ability of technology to increase resources availability is only linear. The authors intended to explore the possibility of a sustainable feedback pattern that would be achieved by altering growth trends among the five variables under three scenarios. They noted that their projections for the values of the variables in each scenario were predictions "only in the most limited sense of the word," and were only indications of the system's behavioral tendencies. Two of the scenarios saw "overshoot and collapse" of the global system by the mid to latter part of the 21st century, while a third scenario resulted in a "stabilized world."
Are you telling me anyone has ever predicted the future correctly?
Its more like a bunch of people have different ideas and the guy left not looking like an idiot is called a genius.
>>71832958
cool story bro
Four decades after the book was published, Limit to Growth’s forecasts have been vindicated by new Australian research. Expect the early stages of global collapse to start appearing soon.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits-to-growth-was-right-new-research-shows-were-nearing-collapse
http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/files/mssi/MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf
According to its website, the Club of Rome is composed of "scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former heads of state from all five continents who are convinced that the future of humankind is not determined once and for all and that each human being can contribute to the improvement of our societies."
The club has two co-presidents, Anders Wijkman (Sweden) and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (Germany), and two vice-president, Dr. Roberto Peccei (Italy and USA) and Susana Catalina Chacón Domínguez (Mexico). The secretary-general is currently Graeme Maxton, of Scotland. He is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the club at its headquarters in Winterthur, Switzerland. Other active members include: Ugo Bardi, Benjamin Bassin, Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, Juan Luis Cebrian, Orio Giarini, Talat Halman, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Javier Solana, Mugur Isărescu, Kamal Hossain, Esko Kalimo, Ashok Khosla, Roberto Peccei, Maria Ramirez Ribes, Jorgen Randers, Victor A. Sadovnichy, Keith Suter, Majid Tehranian, Raoul Weiler, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
jesus christ /pol/ fucking sucks now
guess i'll go shitpost in that girl's racebait thread or something fuck
>>71832511
Malthusians have been predicting resource apocalypse for over a century, and they've been wrong every time. They predicted food shortages and we got a green revolution instead. They predicted peak oil doomsday and we got an oil and gas Renaissance instead.
These retards will never learn. Wealth is not a "fixed, static quantity of stuff" like Marxists preach. It is a matter of innovation and rearranging the materials at our disposal to create new value and prosperity. Human reason is the actual resource, and the freedom to innovate and bring those innovations to people that wish to purchase them.
In modern times, whenever there is a shortage of a commodity, you can always pinpoint the cause squarely with government intervention.
duh, if you're using old technology things deplete rapidly
This thread is 100% pol tier but everyone prefers to debate "whether X is degenerate or not".
Shame for OP who put some effort into this.
Also:janitors are not helping out.
>>71832511
Asteroid mining?
