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   From: hex@unseen.ac.am   
      
   On 09/05/2017 03:14, Roger Blake wrote:   
   > On 2017-05-07, burfordTjustice  wrote:   
   >> WTF? maybe he will take core,buffalo, pantsuit and bama etc.with him?   
   >   
   > For a good time see what scientists in the 1960s and 1970s thought   
   > conditions would be on earth by the year 2000. (For a particularly good   
   > belly laugh, read 1972 book 'The Limits to Growth' published by the Club   
   > of Rome.)   
      
   The timing may have been a bit out, because unforeseen events happen.   
   Futurology is beset with problems like 'events'.  However, the basic   
   principle that you cannot have unlimited exponential growth in   
   population and consumption with limited resources still holds true.   
      
   "In 2011 Ugo Bardi published a book-length academic study of The Limits   
   to Growth, its methods and historical reception and concluded that "The   
   warnings that we received in 1972 ... are becoming increasingly more   
   worrisome as reality seems to be following closely the curves that the   
   ... scenario had generated.   
      
   "In 2016 a report published by the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on   
   Limits to Growth concluded that "there is unsettling evidence that   
   society is still following the ‘standard run’ of the original study – in   
   which overshoot leads to an eventual collapse of production and living   
   standards"   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth   
      
   You can scoff as much as you like, but it will happen.  The only   
   question is when.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)