Simulation in A Christmas Carol and Greek Mythology

When reading Baudrillard's article "The Precession of the Simulacra" and after listening about models of global climate change in lecture Monday, I couldn't help but be reminded of numerous myths and stories in which predictions (simulations) tried to prevent events before they happened. Charles Dickens classic tale "A Christmas Carol" and the Greek myth of Cassandra are two great examples. Weall seem to be Scrooging away the environment, while these ghosts show us what has been and what is yet to come if we don't change our ways.

I think it's interesting how seemingly dissimilar means of communication (a scientific research study, an ancient myth, and a nineteenth century novella) can be entangled in similar issues. Granted "A Christmas Carol" hardly touched on global warming and though global warming may have its origins in the industrial revolution, it says very little on the subject of miserly behavior, but all deal with trying to stop some catastrophe before it happens with the power of knowledge. Are we all forlorn Cassandras, knowing the disasters ahead and unable to change them or will we eventually realize our errors like Scrooge? Then again maybe the models are just bogus, inadequate and insufficient as Baudrillard suggests in his article. Regardless of how the situation ends up, I think it's interesting how simulation had existed even before the digital age, if as nothing else, as ideas. Though they are old stories, their might be some message about simulations and predictions still relevant today embedded in these tales.