Youtube: "ABC News (Australia) Published 06.08.2018: In 1973, Australia's largest computer predicted trends such as pollution levels, population growth, availability of natural resources and quality of life on earth.
ABC's This Day Tonight aired this story on 9 November, 1973
In Minute 1 Second 3 the speaker within this documentary says that it is a behaviour since 1900. Well, I think nowadays we have a different behaviour than in 1900. If you look to the importance of the media today - people look all the time to their smartphone - compared to 1900 you may imagine that the resources used to produce the media are quite different resource than the resources necessary for life in 1900. Today sand is important in 1900 the steel and the coal industry.
And this change will go on: the Boeing 787 is made by carbon fiber thus the importance of aluminum - at least in airplane production - will lessen.
What is more interesting to me is the fact of the publication date of the video of 1973: August 6th 2018. Don't forget the Australian Prime Minister was exchanged. The Australian government is only run by one vote more in the Parliament. The old government has eliminated the carbon tax. The new government is run by a conservative hardliner. There is insecurity if he has the power to stay in office. And there is hope and speculation on new elections in Australia. A Labor government would go on the old track again. It is this connection - I guess - which has led to the publication of this old video by ABC.
I would be more curious if there would be an actual video with todays facts.
As we know: the Club of Rome is part of a doomsday perspective. And we know, too - there is also another perspective on the population topic - that of power. Many people are meaning lots of power. Fewer people are meaning lesser power. What I have heard of is the circumstance that China has left the One-Child-Policy of the past. What does this means? China is not parting the perspective of doomsday.
China does not have to be militarily aggressive they just impress by their mass of people.
The reason China changed its policy: India.
The pollution rate in this documentary was not founded by any description. Therefore the audience does not know what kind of polution was meant and used within the WORLD ONE computer model. "Science" is that time was even unchallenged by any critics as "Science" seemed to be objective - seemingly without any interest of their own. The name of the computer model "WORLD ONE" insinuates rather a political program than a algorithm.
In fact, plastic is a problem - both in a visible way as well in a micro or even nano shape. You eat it in fish. You have in plastic bottles. And probably many fat people got their problems from the hormone-like chemicals within the plastics.
What I am missing in that film is a graph for knowledge. The problem with knowledge is that this resource is inconsistent. Knowledge is lost. And knowledge is gained. For different situations and problems you need different knowledges.
The video report of 1973 has put in account the perspective and the resources of 1973.
With the internet more people have more access to more information which can be newly combined to knowledge.
