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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Our society has been on the verge of peaking since the 1960s according to esperts.
When I was a kit the peak was supposed to be in the 1990s and be in bad decline now.
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The introduction of fossil fueled, mechanised factory farming with artificial fertilizer and high tech cross bread crops in the 60's improved crop yields 300-700% which eliminated the impending starvation crisis.
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The LTG forecasts in 1972 never said anything bad about the 90's. It always placed the timeframe of peak civilization at 2030 right in the original book. We shall see if we can delay the inevitable by another 20 years by printing (eventually worthless) money and unleashing super advanced oil and gas recovery techniques. And then collapse.