Doom Quote by Thomas Malthus

No society can sustain unlimited growth - none ever has. History demonstrates that expectations of infinite growth lead to collapse. Unfortunately, millennia of evidence…

— Arthur Demarest

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

— Warren Buffett

“When we, system dynamicists, see a pattern persist in many parts of a system over long periods, we assume that it has causes embedded…

— Donella H. Meadows

If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of…

— Noam Chomsky

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period…

— Hjalmar Branting

“Our world is increasingly complex, often chaotic, and always fast-flowing. This makes forecasting something between tremendously difficult and actually impossible, with a strong shift…

— Andrew McAfee

One day, when the world market is more or less fully developed and can no longer be suddenly enlarged, and if labour productivity continues…

— Rosa Luxemburg

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible…

— William J. Clinton

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

— Nate Silver

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

— Ilya Prigogine

“Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity.”

— William DeBuys

Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis…

— Hyman Minsky