However, this will only happen if we continue the business-as-usual approach to overexploitation, overpopulation and resource extraction. New research published in the Yale Journal of Industrial Ecology evaluated how things have progressed since the initial report was published in 1972, Motherboard reported. The new study concluded that the world could indeed witness the collapse of society as early as 2040. While the report was heavily criticized at the time, new research reveals that the predictions have been eerily correct so far, forecasting that the collapse of society is on track to happen by 2040.
Scientists at MIT had released research on how the world would fare between 19.