do you want to be poor and hungry or poor and hungry in an economic apocalypse?

[Darren Dirt]

the end* is near!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/04/1970s-study-predictions-are-still-on-target-for-2030s-decline-of-humanity/



maybe we'll soon go back to "the good ol' days"? (maybe those days weren't so "good")










*of ridiculous material prosperity well beyond our individual/collective "needs"

[Lazybones]

That is depressing.

[Mr. Analog]

Science Fiction from the early to mid 70s was all over this kind of stuff heh.

[Thorin]

Doom and Gloom is easy.  If you're wrong nobody notices, if you're right then you get to say "I told you so!"

Anyway, based on the tiny slice of data presented in the original article as a graph, we've got more food than predicted, less global pollution than predicted (even though China is firing all its factories on all cylinders), and whatever the purple line is, it's doing better than expected as well.

Good job picking out the Doom and Gloom sentence from the article, though.

[Mr. Analog]

Predictions of apocalyptic doom are quite interesting, especially looking back from our vantage points of today, if people weren't so scared of industrial pollution in the 70s would we even have the socio-economic situation of today?

Would manufacturing have been "offshored" if EPA regulations didn't make heavy / hi-tech industry slightly more expensive in North America?