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it's thursday july 7th 2020 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, a team of international researchers in 1972

used computer modeling to assess and warn us about the potential collapse of human civilization.

50 years later, how does their assessment add up and have we heated their

warning? Plus, we've got space tourists. Now it's time for Astrolites, why sports might be the

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The Limits to Growth, a seminal 1972 report from an international team of researchers that asserted,

with the backing of then state-of-the-art computer modeling, that the finite resources available

on Earth cannot support the

exponential pace of economic and population growth, and that if no changes were to be made,

there will likely be a, quote, rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population

and industrial capacity, end quote.

It asserted that without significant changes made,

humanity would reach its limits of growth by 2100,

and in most of the simulations they ran,

see the all-out collapse of human civilization by the mid-21st century.

When it was published 50 years ago, it caused a bit of

an uproar, a very skeptical uproar. Here's what the New York Times wrote when the book was first

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