[HN Gopher] Yep, it's bleak, says expert who tested 1970s end-of...
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       Yep, it's bleak, says expert who tested 1970s end-of-the-world
       prediction
        
       Author : tartoran
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-07-25 18:43 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | fallingfrog wrote:
       | Yeah I wouldn't put too much stock in the world3 model. They have
       | variables like "resources" with no units and they start out the
       | variable at some arbitrary number like 100k. There's nothing
       | measurable there.
        
       | ku-man wrote:
       | Jehovah's witnesses were big on end-of-the-world predictions
       | until they realized the only thing they achieved was scorn and
       | ridicule. Hope climatologists and other earth-scientists bend
       | down on alarming climate change calls don't end up like those.
        
       | shrimp_emoji wrote:
       | Can we stop with Guardian articles? It's a tabloid rag that
       | routinely pumps out sensationalist bullshit...
        
       | nanoscopic wrote:
       | The article is very thin on details, but I don't think dismissing
       | the idea that we are headed for disaster is the proper response.
       | 
       | During peak covid wfh period, there has been a clear and obvious
       | difference in the quality of air. This, to me, seems to indicate
       | that the air quality difference is mainly due to the lower amount
       | of people driving. Are we not concerned about returning to a smog
       | filled status quo?
       | 
       | I was recently hired by a company and quit 1 week in. Why? Turns
       | out the position was to assist with IT work related to oil
       | fracking. Is everyone collectively pretending that fracking is
       | not damaging to groundwater in a large area?
       | 
       | Amazon is globally ( esp. in US though ) driving other businesses
       | ( small, medium, and large ) out of business. Do we really
       | believe that the demise of Toys R Us and Sears have nothing to do
       | with Amazon? What about the demise of shopping malls generally?
       | 
       | The last US president is deemed to be a certifiable scumbag by
       | half the US population. We have current articles and video
       | indicating that the current US president is a pedophile ( or at
       | least very fond of touching kids ) We just went through a huge
       | reveal that pedophilia is a big business both in the US and
       | globally. We also went through a lot of recent protests in regard
       | to police and government treatment of us. Are we pretending that
       | society is stable and well?
       | 
       | Education in the US is pitiful compared to education globally. It
       | shows no signs, that I see, of improving. It's going downhill. We
       | are okay with this?
        
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