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Within the next few decades after 2023, the current form of human civilization will end.
“the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we're used to”Climate
Paul Ehrlich
Biologist and author of The Population Bomb (1968)
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A shattering collapse of civilization will occur within the next few decades after 2018.
“It [a shattering collapse of civilization] is a near certainty in the next few decades, and the risk is increasing continually as long as perpetual growth of the human enterprise remains the goal of economic and political systems.”Climate
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Before 1985 the world will enter a genuine age of resource scarcity.
“before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity”Economy
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By 2000 the UK will be a group of impoverished islands of about 70 million hungry people, with an even chance that England will no longer exist.
“By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people … If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”PoliticsEconomy
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By 1985 there will be an utter breakdown of the planet's capacity to support humanity (Ehrlich's stated meaning of "the end").
“Sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come”ClimateHealth
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The greatest death-toll cataclysm in human history will occur within the lifetimes of people already alive in 1969.
“Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born”Health
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India will be unable to feed an additional 200 million people by 1980.
“I don't see how India could possibly feed two hundred million more people by 1980.”Health
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The world death rate will rise substantially (in the 1970s, per the surrounding passage) because of famine.
“At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.”Health
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Hundreds of millions of people will starve to death during the 1970s.
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”Health