NASA-funded study: The way to save Western civilization from collapse is communism

The Daily Caller ^ | 19 Mar 2014 | Michael Bastasch

[mandaladon]

If the United States wants to avoid falling like the Roman Empire, it must avoid “overconsumption” and distribute resources equally, according to a study funded by NASA.

“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 advanced, sophisticated, complex, and creative civilizations can be both fragile and impermanent,” reads the NASA-funded report published in the Ecological Economics journal.

“Two important features seem to appear across societies that have collapsed,” the study adds. “The stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity and the economic stratification of society into Elites and Masses.”

The NASA study uses a Human And Nature DYnamical (HANDY) formula “to provide a general framework that allows carrying out ‘thought experiments’ for the phenomenon of collapse and to test changes that would avoid it.” In other words, the model only takes into account general characteristics of fallen civilizations, and not the specifics.

What did the study find? That collapse is hard to avoid in unequal societies as “[e]lites grow and consume too much, resulting in a famine among Commoners that eventually causes the collapse of society.”

Limits on resources harm the working class, while the wealthy are largely insulated from the problem, meaning resources continue to be used without regard to the cost to society. For example, “an increase in vehicle fuel efficiency technology tends to enable increased per capita vehicle miles driven, heavier cars, and higher average speeds, which then negate the gains from the increased fuel-efficiency.”

[Lazamataz]

NASA has lived way beyond its usefulness.

It's not about space any more over there. Kinda like most of the other agencies: The Department of Education isn't really about education, the Environmental Protection Agency isn't really about protecting the environment (its about shutting down business), and so on.

[markman46]

just what i thought sponsered by our global warming friends at goddard:

The study was sponsored by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and headed by the National Science Foundation's Safa Motesharrei.

[chessplayer]

So just where does NASA say communism must be imposed in this country?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Communism is actually the way to speed up our collapse.

[Windcatcher]

You can start with the faculty lists of nearly every college in this country. The day they fire up their FEMA cattle cars, those @!$*’ers get dropped.