The Club of Rome launched their latest report “2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years” yesterday which issues a warning about humanity’s ability to survive. The grim conclusion is that mankind will soon be confronted with the limits of the planet if it continues with the over-consumption and short-sightedness of the current political and economic model. “We already live in a manner that cannot be continued for generations without major change. Humanity has overshot the earth’s resources“, said Jorgen Randers, author of the report. The report predicts that CO2 emissions will continue to increase, leading to a rise of 2 degrees by 2052, and that economic growth will stagnate due to slower productivity growth in the current dominant economies. Global population is predicted to peak in 2042 due to fertility falling in urban areas. The report comes 40 years after the same think tank published a report entitled “The Limits of Growth”, which at the time caused a controversy for questioning the belief in endless growth.