{"id":58954,"date":"2021-08-10T06:59:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58954"},"modified":"2021-08-10T06:59:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T11:59:50","slug":"the-century-of-the-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58954","title":{"rendered":"The century of the limits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING. JUST DO IT. SMASH YOUR LIMITS<\/strong><\/p>\n

We know much better some slogans that sell us that everything is possible, than the laws of thermodynamics, which govern our own nature and the limits that bound it.<\/strong>\u00a0And so it goes. This is our frame of thought and from it derives some of our worst contradictions.<\/p>\n

There is a story that is very interesting to share in order to talk about all this and that hides many clues about where we are now. In 1972, shortly before the first oil crisis and while computers were living their own prehistory, the Club of Rome -a recently founded scientific and cultural avant-garde organisation, which later has been key in the advancement of science and political ecology- commissioned\u00a0a report from MIT in Massachusetts on the state of resources and the key variables to sustain our civilisation<\/strong>. System dynamics methodology had just begun to take its first steps, and its founder, Jay Forrester, developed several modesl to analyse the enviornment, resources, economy and population.<\/p>\n

Almost five decades later, the incredible accuracy of the forecasts of the World3 model \u2013 a computer simulation programme \u2013 are an unparalleled milestone in terms of scientific anticipation.<\/h5>\n

It must be kept in mind that in reality there are an infinite number of interrelated variables that are impossible to take into account \u2013 such as the cultural\/anthropological variables of a civilisation \u2013 and a complexity that no model can calibrate. However, in one of the many reviews that have been made of the MIT work, such as Graham Turner\u2019s review in 2014,\u00a0it was confirmed that this is probably one of the most impressive scientific works in the history of mankind.<\/strong>\u00a0A few months ago,\u00a0another review has reaffirmed its predictions.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The century of the limits IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING. JUST DO IT. SMASH YOUR LIMITS We know much better some slogans that sell us that everything is possible, than the laws of thermodynamics, which govern our own nature and the limits that bound it.\u00a0And so it goes. This is our frame of thought and from it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31604,1647,8150,485,10003],"class_list":["post-58954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-fastlovestudios","tag-finite-resources","tag-limits","tag-limits-to-growth","tag-resource-limits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58955,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58954\/revisions\/58955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}