In 1972, a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology predicted that humanity's pursuit of economic growth without regard for environmental and society costs would lead to society collapsing by the mid 21st century – a new study finds this may become a reality.
Gaya Herrington, Sustainability and Dynamic System Analysis Lead at KPMG, undertook the task of proving or disproving MIT's claims and used a world simulation model that analyzed how our world has progressed from 1972.
Herrington looked at 10 key variables, such as population, industrial output and persistent pollution, and determined our business-as-usual mentality will spark a decline of economic growth within the next decade.
However, the data revealed an even bleaker future – our world could experience a total societal collapse by 2040.
A total societal collapse would mean an abrupt decline in quality of life, food production, industrial output and ultimately the human population.
> In 1972, a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology predicted that humanity's pursuit of economic growth without regard for environmental and society costs would lead to society collapsing by the mid 21st century – a new study finds this may become a reality.
> Gaya Herrington, Sustainability and Dynamic System Analysis Lead at KPMG, undertook the task of proving or disproving MIT's claims and used a world simulation model that analyzed how our world has progressed from 1972.
> Herrington looked at 10 key variables, such as population, industrial output and persistent pollution, and determined our business-as-usual mentality will spark a decline of economic growth within the next decade.
> However, the data revealed an even bleaker future – our world could experience a total societal collapse by 2040.
> A total societal collapse would mean an abrupt decline in quality of life, food production, industrial output and ultimately the human population.
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