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Of course there will be misses or extreme predictions. However, the fact remains that climate and environmental scientists, among several others, have been warning about these things for going on a century now.

The detrimental effects of a technocratic-oriented society have been predicted since Lewis Mumford to the publishing of Limits of Growth and onward. The effects are social, economic, and environmental, and the general gist of the predictions has come true. Actions have consequences and we're at the point where we can't engineer our way out of our problems.