Well, this will make your day a bit cheerier...not.
Like Wile. E. Coyote, we're heading for a fall.
"In Limits to Growth, a bitterly disputed 1972 book that explicated these findings, researchers argued that the global industrial system has so much inertia that it cannot readily correct course in response to signals of planetary stress. But unless economic growth skidded to a halt before reaching the edge, they warned, society was headed for overshoot—and a splat that could kill billions."
Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?: Scientific American:
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