The End of the World As We Know It?

Forty years ago, MIT researchers published the results of an environmental study predicting global collapse in the year 2030 if we humans continued to live as we were then. More recently, an Australian physicist compared that work to current trends and found it to be right on track: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Looking-Back-on-the-Limits-of-Growth.html