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the world won't end at Dec 2012 but will probably suck around 2030 according to some dude from MIT.
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A renowned Australian research scientist says a study from researchers at MIT claiming the world could suffer from a "global economic collapse" and "precipitous population decline" if people continue to consume the world's resources at the current pace is still on track, nearly 40 years after it was first produced.
The Smithsonian Magazine writes that Australian physicist Graham Turner says "the world is on track for disaster" and that current research from Turner coincides with a famous, and in some quarters, infamous, academic report from 1972 entitled, "The Limits to Growth." Turner's research is not affiliated with MIT or The Club for Rome.
Produced for a group called The Club of Rome, the study's researchers created a computing model to forecast different scenarios based on the current models of population growth and global resource consumption. The study also took into account different levels of agricultural productivity, birth control and environmental protection efforts. Twelve million copies of the report were produced and distributed in 37 different languages.
Most of the computer scenarios found population and economic growth continuing at a steady rate until about 2030. But without "drastic measures for environmental protection," the scenarios predict the likelihood of a population and economic crash.
read more.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/next-great-depression-mit-researchers-predict-global-economic-190352944.html
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No Zombie Apocalypse?
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Arch_Magi posted:
No Zombie Apocalypse?
We're working on it.
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Serious thing, I am huge on conservation especially on certain rare minerals we use for making computers. Those aren't going to be around forever
Northern Mexico has a great deal of rare mineral deposits that might someday prove extremely valuable. Maybe a reason to "save Mexico" from the drug war that we helped create.
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Arch_Magi posted:
No Zombie Apocalypse?
you do realize you would be one of the mindless zombies, right? the obese aren't overly mobile.
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Caoilin posted:
Arch_Magi posted:
No Zombie Apocalypse?
you do realize you would be one of the mindless zombies, right? the obese aren't overly mobile.
she says deftly as she hobbles along on crutches...not that I like Arch any better but pot meet kettle.
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the_great_intex posted:
Serious thing, I am huge on conservation especially on certain rare minerals we use for making computers. Those aren't going to be around forever
Northern Mexico has a great deal of rare mineral deposits that might someday prove extremely valuable. Maybe a reason to "save Mexico" from the drug war that we helped create.
So does China. They have the worlds largest supply of REM's out there.
Caoilin posted:
Arch_Magi posted:
No Zombie Apocalypse?
you do realize you would be one of the mindless zombies, right? the obese aren't overly mobile.
I guess you didn't get the news that I've lost a couple of hundred pounds since you last formulated a coherent thought? Of course not.
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Caoilin posted:
Arch_Magi posted:
No Zombie Apocalypse?
you do realize you would be one of the mindless zombies, right? the obese aren't overly mobile.
she says deftly as she hobbles along on crutches...not that I like Arch any better but pot meet kettle.
This.
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Only a couple hundred? Sounds like you have a lot more work ahead of you.
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Kordirn posted:
Only a couple hundred? Sounds like you have a lot more work ahead of you.
Yes, I do. Another 75 and I should be back down to my HS/College football and lacrosse playing weight. This summer I'll be focusing on strength training and endurance. By this the fall, I should be in awesome shape for a 46 year old man, hell, I should be in better shape than many of the 20-somethings around here. Thank you for your concerns, I appreciate motivation from people.
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