2030 to Mark the Decline of Civilization

And its possible collapse, according to MIT study

When the Limits to Growth report was first released it received a scathing review in The New York Times. Critics called it “misleading and empty”. Despite being the work of a team of scientists from MIT, Limits to Growth was accused of passing off pseudoscience as real science, with the authors of The New York Times going as far as calling it “garbage”. According to them, the report had little to actually teach. Yet more recent examinations of the report — one in 2014 and another in 2021 — reveal the accuracy with which it has been able to predict the course of civilization. Earlier criticisms like the one from The New York Times have been found to be unsubstantiated or grossly misrepresentative of the information.

Limits to Growth is as impressive as it is intimidating. It predicts that all outcomes for our future show a decline within the next 20 years.

There is, then, a very real chance that we may be headed toward civilization’s collapse.

The report itself was published in 1972 and was aimed at exploring one thing in particular: growth. Growth, and all the different paths civilization might take in continuing to expand. To create predictions for these different paths the researchers created an — at the time —…