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ArtDeco's avatar

Interesting that the "Limits to growth" put pollutants at the top of the list of probabilitys a half century ago in the BAU scenario. As you appear to do now.

Maybe the old, very crude and generalized computer models were a better guide that the new AIs that try to account for a multitude of details and probabilitys.

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Philip Harris's avatar

Yes positive feedback and complex non-linear responses; just a thought, pollution applies to plants and the animal kingdom, and even to the more adaptable microflora.

Meanwhile, the timing and speed of the end of the so-called American empire? Rome went through stages. It feels to me that industrial civilisation with something a little over half of the world urbanised / suburbanised is one globalized 'Rome', with 'the barbarians' essentially in charge (Cavafy).

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