A controversial MIT study from 1972 forecast the collapse of civilization - and Gaya Herrington is here to deliver the bad newsAt a UN sustainability meeting several years ago, an economic policy officer came up to Gaya Herrington and introduced himself. Taking her name for a riff on James Lovelock's earth-as-an-organism Gaia hypothesis, he remarked: "Gaya - that's not a name, it's responsibility."Herrington, a Dutch sustainability researcher and adviser to the Club of Rome, a Swiss thinktank, has made headlines in recent days after she authored a report that appeared to show a controversial 1970s study predicting the collapse of civilization was - apparently - right on time. Continue reading...
Yep, it's bleak, says expert who tested 1970s end-of-the-world prediction
25. červenece 2021 8:15
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/gaya-herrington-mit-study-the-limits-to-growth
Zdroj: The Guardian