[tt] [ExI] [wta-talk] Meme 128: What Have You Changed Your Mind about?

[Perry E. Metzger]

> The climate change and energy shortening issue has been around since
> at least the Club of Rome report '72.

The Club of Rome report, "Limits to Growth", has proven to be
inaccurate in every specific prediction it made. In fact, I believe
the report essentially said that we would be in the throes of mass
starvation and total resource exhaustion by now.

I think that, if we pretend to be scientifically minded, we must
assume that the hypotheses followed by the report must be wrong, since
the predictions made on the basis of those hypotheses were wrong.

Julian Simon did a pretty good job of explaining why the Club of Rome
report was so thoroughly wrong, so I won't waste people's time here
with it. My main point is that if we are to pretend to be followers of
the scientific method, we clearly must look elsewhere for models of
how the world works -- mentioning "Limits to Growth" is about as
reasonable in this day and age as mentioning Marx or Velikovsky.


Perry