Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse
Posted by:
Panchito
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Date: March 15, 2014 06:04PM [www.theguardian.com]
"A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history." Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to "precipitous collapse - often lasting centuries - have been quite common." The research project is based on a new cross-disciplinary 'Human And Nature DYnamical' (HANDY) model, led by applied mathematician Safa Motesharri of the US National Science Foundation-supported National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, in association with a team of natural and social scientists. The study based on the HANDY model has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Elsevier journal, Ecological Economics." Re: Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse
Posted by:
la_veronique
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Date: March 22, 2014 02:30AM "collapse"
mentally physically emotionally spiritually or just pure financially and infrastructure wise though, guess u can't separate any of it collapse.... hmm... then what... a supernova? Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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