<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto">Yes, exactly. Donella and Dennis Meadows got it right. On punch cards in 1972! The most important resource which we have exploited and exhausted world-wide is oil. Fracking delayed it a little bit, but it looks as if we are close to "peak oil" now.<div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is hard to believe that everything can collapse. And yet it is more and more certain it will happen, it is just unclear when and how exactly. </div><div dir="auto">https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=how-everything-can-collapse-a-manual-for-our-times--9781509541386</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The well-informed billionaires know it will happen, but instead of doing something against it they wonder how they can survive the collapse in their bunkers and hideouts</div><div dir="auto">https://rushkoff.com/books/survival-of-the-richest-escape-fantasies-of-the-tech-billionaires/</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Roger Critchlow <rec@elf.org> </div><div>Date: 5/30/25 8:18 PM (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: [FRIAM] Limits to Growth </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-overshoot-and-collapse-new-data/">https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-overshoot-and-collapse-new-data/</a><div><br></div><div>I remember the Limits to Growth from my freshman year in college. Now Hackernews links to the above in which some people argue that we've achieved the predicted overshoot for the business as usual scenario and the subsequent collapse begins now. Enjoy the peak of human technological development.</div><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div><div><br></div></div>
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