Researchers: End Of Human Civilization By 2040?

DETROIT – In 1972, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented a fascinating study called The Limits to Growth. The aim of the study was to find out how long we have until the end of civilization as we know it.

To do this, they created a computer model that was fed with a wide range of data—from the world’s population to natural resources, oxygen consumption, and the melting of the polar ice caps. The results showed that civilization would collapse in 2040—which is particularly concerning today given that if it is true we may only have 18 years left on this planet.

This report was published by the Club of Rome, a nonprofit organization, and in 2009 American Scientist published a study entitled Revisiting the Limits of Growth after Peak Oil.

Unfortunately, the researchers of that team landed on a similar conclusion and predicted that 2040 would bethe year of ‘collapse.

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