However the model does show that our current way of life appears to be unsustainable and could have dramatic worldwide consequences.
Dr Aled Jones, the Director of the , told Insurge Intelligence: "We ran the model forward to the year 2040, along a business-as-usual trajectory based on ‘do-nothing’ trends — that is, without any feedback loops that would change the underlying trend.
"The results show that based on plausible climate trends, and a total failure to change course, the global food supply system would face catastrophic losses, and an unprecedented epidemic of food riots.
"In this scenario, global society essentially collapses as food production falls permanently short of consumption."
Paul R. Ehrlich has been a household name since the publication of his 1968 bestseller, The Population Bomb.
What on earth would we have done if we hadn't all died back in the 1980s like Ehrlich predicted? We'd have all been in one heck of a fix, eh? Thank goodness we're all now dead! Whew!
We'd have all been in one heck of a fix, eh? Thank goodness we're all now dead! Whew!
Well I suppose it all depends on how old you are and how much longer you're planning on sticking around. I've been fortunate to have survived the "bomb" that Ehrich predicted, but realisticly, I don't have too many years left before I'm pushing up daisys anyway. However, global population has DOUBLED since Ehrlich wrote his book. And it is inevitable that global population will suffer a major collapse from disease/famine due to globalization and the interdependency of Earth's limited resources. Air/water pollution, deforestation, drought, decline of pollenators (honeybees) all portend tremendous challenges for younger generations. The "free market" is ignorant greedy and shortsighted. It will do nothing to plan ahead to mitigate these circumstances, and merely plot to prosper and profit from the human misery generated by overpopulation.
I'm only 51. So I'm trying to put off the 'daisies' as long as possible. But I have type 2 diabetes - so I could go: 'GAACCKK!' - and kick of a heart attack tomorrow! Who knows? Really...
