• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    Wow!

    Great job!

    Some of us figured this out before we got out of college, or even without going to college.

    Some people even figured this out many decades ago!

    Anyway, time again to roll out the 'ole limits to growth chart, with a modern update, using CO2 instead of ‘pollution’.

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.13442

    Uh yep, yep you’re reading that right, the peak of civilization is roughly now, all downhill from here.

    Here’s the UK’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries estimating global economic losses due to climate change:

    https://actuaries.org.uk/media-release/current-climate-policies-risk-catastrophic-societal-and-economic-impacts/

    It sure was fun to be a data analyst this last decade, screaming into apparently the void, as the world effectively decides to commit suicide.

    Oh well, apocalypse timeline it is then, good thing I can sing most of the New Vegas soundtrack, in case my radio/smartphone/pipboy breaks.