Dennis Meadows: Collapse inevitable 2015-2020

[Benton D Struckcheon]

23. On the political and economic points.

Number three I already showed is false, with actual data.
Number four is absolutely not true, globally. This is actually a period when more people have risen out of poverty, both absolutely and as a percent of the global population, than any other time, ever.
Number five is completely and utterly untrue. The poor are far more enfranchised now, in both India and China, than they were in the first half of the twentieth century.
In South America, most of the continent is now ruled democratically.
Number seven was far more true in the first half of the twentieth century than now. Mao, Stalin and Hitler are all dead and gone, and the countries they ruled are in various states of better governance now than they were under these dictators. That covers well more than half of humanity. Throw in India and you have three quarters of the world population who's governance is much better than it was then.

The first part, about the ecology, is likely true, but I'm no expert, so I'm wary of agreeing categorically, given that the politics and economics don't show the stresses you say they do. Overstating or simply repeating, in the face of obvious evidence you're wrong, doesn't make me trust that first part.