United States. A classified document entitled “Implications of World Wide Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests”, informally known as The Kissinger Report, warns the president of the possibility of massive famines in some of the poorest parts of the world. The predictions will not come true. In fact, around the year 2000, and increasingly so at the beginning of the 21st century, the phenomenon called The Great Reversal begins, where the consumption of raw materials begins to decline, despite the continuous increase in world GDP and well-being: in practice, the dematerialization of goods and value begins.