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A civilization with a decent quality of life based on renewable energy and renewable and reused materials, and guided by a strong ecological and humanitarian ethic, could offer a path forward that is worthy of the label “human.”

Dans les années 1970, un rapport publié par des chercheurs du Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT, États-Unis) avait fait grand bruit. Il annonçait l'effondrement possible de notre civilisation avant la fin du XXIe siècle. Des conclusions tristement en phase avec les données actuelles, conclut aujourd'hui une nouvelle étude.

Infamous 1972 Prediction of Global Collapse in The 2040s Looks to Be Right on Track BRANDON SPECKTOR, LIVE SCIENCE 20 JULY 2021 Human society is on track for a collapse in the next two decades if there isnt a serious shift in global priorities, according to a new reassessment of a 1970s report, Vice reported.   In that report – published in the bestselling book The Limits to Growth (1972) – a team of MIT scientists argued that industrial civilization was bound to collapse if corporat...

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:00 UTC A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appears to be accurate based on new empirical data. As the world looks forward to a rebound in economic growth following the devastation wrought by the pandemic, the research raises urgent questions about the risks of attempting to simply return to the pre-pandemic normal. In...