I’ve given that idea some thought. Wheras one cannot fortell the future one can can get an idea of where it might go from looking at trends.

@JackPedigo Sagan wasn’t foretelling the future he was using the data available to him in 1995 to project forward and see what would happen if that same trajectory continued. It’s what all local and national governments should be adept at doing but sadly are not. We have the information but tend to sit on it until crisis point approaches and then we react to it…instead of using the information to act proactively to change course or take necessary steps to prevent harmful events occurring. If Sagan was prescient enough to predict what would be likely to happen, then why were others apparently blind to it? Or could others see it but preferred not to act on it because they were either making too much money, or it would have jeopardised their position of power to want to alter things.

@Marionville thank you. It’s another way of repeating my thoughts. Being involved with population demographics similar predictions were made as long as 30 year’s ago that are coming to fruition.