Showing posts with label 1970. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970. Show all posts

Sunday, July 25

On Track for Global Collapse

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

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 corporations and governments continued to pursue continuous economic growth, no matter the costs. 

The researchers forecasted 12 possible scenarios for the future, most of which predicted a point where natural resources would become so scarce that further economic growth would become impossible, and personal welfare would plummet.

The report's most infamous scenario — the Business as Usual (BAU) scenario — predicted that the world's economic growth would peak around the 2040s, then take a sharp downturn, along with the global population, food availability and natural resources.

This imminent "collapse" wouldn't be the end of the human race, but rather a societal turning point that would see standards of living drop around the world for decades, the team wrote.  READ MORE

Sunday, April 12

During My Lifetime... so far...

1950
Korean War
NATO created
McCarthy attack on Americans Communists

1960
Vietnam War
Space flight
Moon walk
Civil Rights Movement
Kennedy assassinated
Martin Luther King  Jr. assassinated

1970
Gay Rights movement
Watergate
Energy crisis - gasoline lines
Women's rights movement

1980
Berlin Wall comes down
Collapse of the USSR

1990
Cold War ends
Space Shuttle Discovery
War in Iraq
Gulf War

2000
Stock Market Crash
9/11 Attack on USA
Twin Towers Collapse
Dot.com bubble bursts
ENRON scandal
First Black President

2010
Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill
Osama bin Laden killed
Pope Benedict abdicates
Global terrorist attacks
President Trump Impeached

2020
COVID-19 a Global Pandemic



NOTE:  These are the events that caught my attention or when experienced influenced my life and do not represent all the important and/or major events that took place during these decades...