Human society is on track for a collapse in the next two decades if there isn't a serious shift in global priorities, according to a new reassessment of a 1970s report, Vice reported.
"The Limits to Growth" was published in 1972. It argued that industrial civilization was bound to collapse if corporations and governments continued to pursue continuous economic growth. The researchers forecasted 12 possible scenarios for the future, most of which predicted a point where natural resources would become scarce.
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