Saturday, December 28, 2019

Decline Is Now Inevitable

So says Dennis Meadows, one of the researchers of the report entitled "The Limits to Growth" which was published nearly 50 years ago:

https://www.peakprosperity.com/dennis-meadows-the-limits-to-growth/

Here are some of the report's conclusions:

1. Given business as usual, i.e., no changes to historical growth trends, the limits to growth on earth would become evident by 2072, leading to “sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity”. This includes the following:
  • Global Industrial output per capita reaches a peak around 2008, followed by a rapid decline
  • Global Food per capita reaches a peak around 2020, followed by a rapid decline
  • Global Services per capita reaches a peak around 2020, followed by a rapid decline
  • Global population reaches a peak in 2030, followed by a rapid decline

2. Growth trends existing in 1972 could be altered so that sustainable ecological and economic stability could be achieved.

3. The sooner the world’s people start striving for the second outcome above, the better the chance of achieving it.

Note that "climate change" is not specifically mentioned in the above quote, although 50 years ago they appear to have had something else on their minds - namely human population growth, modernization, and their combined impact on the health of the planet.

Whatever the exact mode of our decline, the basic cause is too many humans. Unless we deal with that fact, our demise IS inevitable.

Maybe that's why the powers that be want a nuclear war with Russia and China, since the result would be nuclear winter and a lot of dead humans.

What do you think? Is that what they're up to?

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