To model global sustainability, A group of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ordered a supercomputer, the largest in Australia at the time, to assess future population growth. The answer they received not only answered their questions, but also revealed when the world as we knew it would end.
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According to ‘Big Think’, the prediction was made thanks to World One, a program originally created by computer pioneer Jay Forrester. This software saw the world as a single system, so much so that in the early 1970s report it was called “an electronic tour of our behavior since 1900 and where that behavior will take us.”
The group of researchers was commissioned by the Club of Rome, an organization made up of scientists, thinkers, former heads of state and UN bureaucrats. Its main goal, then, was to “promote understanding of humanity’s global challenges and propose solutions through scientific analysis, communication and advocacy.”
World One, the first turning point for humanity, predicted it for 2020.
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“Around 2020, the condition of the planet becomes very critical. If we do nothing about it, the quality of life drops to zero. “Pollution is getting so severe that it will start killing people, which will cause the population to drop below its 1900 level,” Australian ABC television said.
Although the outlook for 2020 already looks bleak in itself, The prediction that really caught our attention was that between 2040 and 2050 “civilized life as we know it will end on this planet.” This global collapse will be partly the result of an increase in population and industry.
The program’s calculations were based on trends in pollution levels, population growth, scarcity of natural resources, and overall quality of life on Earth, according to the aforementioned private portal.
Alexander King, then director of the World Bank and the UN Organization for Economic Development, and a member of The Club of Rome, pointed out for an ‘ABC’ report that the only solution to facing global sustainability is cooperation among all nations. .
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“The sovereignty of nations is no longer absolute. There is a gradual decrease in dominance, little by little. “This will happen even in big countries,” he said.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) did not share some of the original television coverage of the MIT research until 2018. Salvaging the findings once again put the debate about the precision of the study on the table.
Although those who said that the work that emerged after the investigation was called ‘Limits of Growth’ saw it as one of the most important documents of the period, some others branded it as uncertain, empty and misleading.
“’Limits to growth’ is an empty and misleading work for us. The majestic computer technology and systems jargon takes arbitrary assumptions, shakes them up, and draws arbitrary conclusions that sound like science,” wrote ‘The New York Times’ a few years ago.
While the research has come under criticism, some have argued that the first stages of global collapse could begin soon. Especially after the supercomputer found the truth in one way or another in the environmental events of 2020.
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