People knew in the 1980ies that without immediate changes, our civilization would face an ecological disaster. Where our parents failures because they could not turn the boat around? I suspect society has no rudders that would allow to escape the stream of industrialization.
The point that Meadow's et al made in Frontiers to Growth was not that people cannot regulate, but that the signal that prompts them to regulate will come several decades too late. By the time our agriculture collapses, the tipping points that led there will be long past.
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Now that we know that, we just have to regulate harder.
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"now that we know that wishful thinking does not work, we need to wish harder"
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