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(85,998 posts)
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 08:16 AM Feb 2019

We're Doomed

Planet Green @PlanetGreen 53m53 minutes ago
In the early 1970s, a computer program called World1 predicted that civilization would likely collapse by 2040. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had programmed it to consider a model of sustainability for the world. https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/computers/stories/MIT-computer-model-predicted-end-world-limits-of-growth

___In the early 1970s, a computer program called World1 predicted that civilization would likely collapse by 2040. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had programmed it to consider a model of sustainability for the world.

The prediction has resurfaced because Australian broadcaster ABC recirculated a 1973 newscast about the computer program. The program's findings, however, never really went away, as its results have been re-evaluated over the nearly 50 years since they first appeared.

The bad news for us is that the model seems to be spot-on so far...

According to the 1973 ABC segment, World1 identified 2020 as a tipping point for civilization.

"At around 2020, the condition of the planet becomes highly critical. If we do nothing about it, the quality of life goes down to zero. Pollution becomes so seriously it will start to kill people, which in turn will cause the population to diminish, lower than it was in the 1900. At this stage, around 2040 to 2050, civilized life as we know it on this planet will cease to exist."


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watoos

(7,142 posts)
2. Everything is going according to plan.
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 08:27 AM
Feb 2019

One of the main topics at Davos was pushing AI so that the super rich could do away with those pesky humans.

Super rich people like Bill Gates are in favor of depopulation.

Squinch

(50,955 posts)
3. I'm in favor of depopulation too. Population has exploded in the last few generations. And
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:03 AM
Feb 2019

people suck. They'll never give up their gigantic cars and plastic everything and Roundup in the garden.

The world can't accommodate so many of us.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
4. When Bill Gates gets rid of US, who will buy Windows 20 and Windows 20 upgrade?!
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:05 AM
Feb 2019

Asking for my AI robot replacement.



delisen

(6,044 posts)
5. Theory that all civilizations collapse due to own garbage/destruction
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:07 AM
Feb 2019

of their ecosystems. So if war doesn't destroy a civilization, the failure to deal with the garbage it creates will destroy it.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
6. We are already into the sixth mass extinction and now it is only a matter of time.
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:18 AM
Feb 2019

Earth can not handle more than 3 times it's population carrying capacity without it having a devastating effect on all environments and species. Even the wealthiest will have no place to hide or seek refuge from this self imposed carnage. Turns out humans weren't the most intelligent life on Earth.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
8. That seemed clear to me in 1965. That's why I pledged
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 10:41 AM
Feb 2019

not to add any more people to the population. So, I did not. I kept that pledge.

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
9. The program probably did not include allowance for tech advances such as carbon mining.
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 11:14 AM
Feb 2019

It may not be enough alone of course but it could help a great deal if we take serious measures in every area.

A long as greedy slobs like drumph are in power the odds are stacked against us to do anything about it.

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