Okay, it’s a new year, which means another doomsaying tract from Lester Brown and the paranoid folks at The WorldWatch Institute. I’ll give you three guesses what Brown’s big prediction this time is. Give up?
That’s right, surprise surprise, Brown predicts the world is on the verge of suffering massive famine and global collapse– even the international monetary system could be threatened. According to Brown, “As the global economy has expanded, it’s begun to outrun the basic support systems. If it continues, we will find ourselves in serious difficulty.”
Given Brown’s track record, the only thing in serious difficulty is that Brown may run out of gullible people to keep believing his annual announcement of the apocalypse.
Update 2020: Ironically, World Watch itself appears to have been unsustainable. Wikipedia notes its websites are no longer reachable, presumably due to Brown’s retirement in 2015.