Hope you’ve enjoyed civilized life, folks. Because a new study sponsored by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center says the world’s industrial societies are poised to collapse under the weight of their own unsustainable appetites for resources. There goes the weekend . . . and everything after it for the rest of our lives.
The research article appears in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Ecological Economics, but Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development, has a more understandable (but no less harrowing) summary over at The Guardian. Either way, the news isn’t good—as the researchers point out, history doesn’t seem to hold out any favor for advanced societies.
The fall of the Roman Empire, and the equally (if not more) advanced Han, Mauryan, and Gupta Empires, as well as so many advanced Mesopotamian Empires, are all testimony to the fact that…
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Hi Rashid, I did some further investigation on this subject and was concerned that although widely disseminated in the media, no source document link was being provided. See my posting with the addendum which has the link to the original journal article describing the HANDY model which predicts the demise of “business as usual” on our planet. http://www.21stcentech.com/headlines-nasa-doomsday-scenario-real-hoax/
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