Posted on 03/19/2014 12:15:04 PM PDT by Dallas59
After running the numbers on a set of four equations representing human society, a team of NASA-funded mathematicians has come to the grim conclusion that the utter collapse of human civilization will be difficult to avoid.
The exact scenario may vary, but in the coming decades humanity is essentially doomed to some variant of Elites consuming too much, resulting in a famine among Commoners that eventually causes the collapse of society.
That is, unless civilization is ready for one of two major policy changes: inequality must be greatly reduced or population growth must be strictly controlled.
The apocalyptic pronouncements, set to be published in an upcoming edition of Ecological Economics, come courtesy of a U.S. team led by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei and funded in part by NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center.
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So much easier than death camps.
Gov.funded tech incubator still hanging around trying to justify a paycheck. All Gov. entities should have an automatic expiration date built into their charter. Clear out the deadwood every decade. Zombies that don’t realize they’re dead and cannibalize the rest.
Like that story of “Jericho, Kansas” ?
Unless the nukes go off then it will never happen that way.
Although I agree that people will die, mostly by being killed for looting, we can support ourselves in this country just fine if we had to.
It’s the rest of the world we would stop sending food to that would starve, not us.
Term limits for government entities sounds like a good idea.
Debunked here:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2014/03/21/popular-guardian-story-collapse-industrial-civilization/
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