Robert’s got an extensive debunk or two on this, but to summarize:
- this study was made in the 1970s and its predictions have not held up since (e.g. our quality of living was predicted to have dropped dramatically by now, but it’s only gotten better)
- it was not actually made by MIT; some of the people who worked on it worked at MIT but the study was not created or endorsed by the school
- it is an archaic and outdated computer model that used a very limited amount of data
- this was made back when there was a trend of certain scientists predicting that we’d run out of resources in the near future and have famines/shortages by the 2000s - their predictions were of course not correct
