Sad thing is that when it was first published it was meant to be both a warning and a guide on how to limit resource consumption back to sustainable levels so as to not experience catastrophic collapse. However none of those warning where taken seriously and the researchers where made to look like crackpots in popular media. Which sucks because all they where trying to do was make sense of the problem and work collaboratively on solutions to safely and methodically transition society so things wouldn't be so disruptive. We saw how well that went.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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What was the human population predicted to be? Everyone seems surprised that the birthrate is falling across the world for what appear to be economic/philosophical reasons. Was a decline at this time predicted by the models? If not, how would that affect every other prediction?
They predicted peak population about now at 7.7billion or so. They did include falling birth rates into their models as even back then rich countries had below replacement rate fertility rates. As of right now we are not a peak population though.
what is humna?
It's what you say 5 times before yelling "saaah-wing, batter!"
The final straw indicating we're at peak development... It's all down hill from this small mistake.
A miserable little pile of sercets
I'd say it's a typo and should be "Human"