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A fascinating study from MIT in 1972 predicted societal collapse by 2040, and new analysis shows we are still on track. In our current system design, which is self-terminating, this totally makes sense.
MIT researchers published 'The Limits to Growth' utilizing the World3 computer model. The model predicted that ongoing unchecked economic and extraction driven markets would likely lead to a collapse of industrial civilization in this century.
Recent validation of that original model by Gaya Herrington, a director at KPMG, whose 2020 study found that modern real-world data closely align with the book’s “business-as-usual” trajectory. According to her findings, if current trends continue without major systemic change, global economic decline could begin within this decade and possibly result in societal collapse around 2040.
A more recent recalibrations of the World3 model reaffirm this trajectory, reinforcing the urgency of reconsidering our growth-oriented systems. Since 2009, we have been calling for a focus on total system re-design with our work. For years, this was ridiculed. But here we are 16 years later, and more and more people are realizing what truly needs to be done. To us, that is changing the conversation from making change entirely through our existing systems, to thinking in greater complexity about what is truly driving the results we currently have. It's not one political party or another, it's not Trump or Biden/Harris, it's the system design itself.
MIT researchers published 'The Limits to Growth' utilizing the World3 computer model. The model predicted that ongoing unchecked economic and extraction driven markets would likely lead to a collapse of industrial civilization in this century.
Recent validation of that original model by Gaya Herrington, a director at KPMG, whose 2020 study found that modern real-world data closely align with the book’s “business-as-usual” trajectory. According to her findings, if current trends continue without major systemic change, global economic decline could begin within this decade and possibly result in societal collapse around 2040.
A more recent recalibrations of the World3 model reaffirm this trajectory, reinforcing the urgency of reconsidering our growth-oriented systems. Since 2009, we have been calling for a focus on total system re-design with our work. For years, this was ridiculed. But here we are 16 years later, and more and more people are realizing what truly needs to be done. To us, that is changing the conversation from making change entirely through our existing systems, to thinking in greater complexity about what is truly driving the results we currently have. It's not one political party or another, it's not Trump or Biden/Harris, it's the system design itself.
