A new study by a director of one of the world's largest accounting firms, KPMG, reveals that a 1972 model by MIT researchers predicting the collapse of society in the 21st century looks to be worryingly on track, a report by Vice explains.
The 1972 model, called World3, was created in the '70s using empirical data, and it was published in a book called 'Limits to Growth'.
Essentially, the model aimed to answer the question of what would happen if humanity keeps pursuing economic growth, no matter the societal and environmental cost? It concluded that, without drastic change, industrial society was headed for collapse.
Limits to growth theory is rubbish, as eloquantly explained in this book which any person on the left or interested in ecology absolutely must read at some point.
Edit: I may have come off as too harsh. At our current pace sure yes it could accurately predict how things will turn out, but it's not the only way. In fact, our only way out of our current ecological crisis is to build more, contrary to the Malthusian eco-fash anti-growth folks
Well if you had read limits to growth you'd find that's what they say