The utter collapse of human civilization will be ‘difficult to avoid,’ NASA funded study says

National Post ^ | 3/18/2014 | National Post

[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 NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

[Dallas59]

“this NASA-funded study makes case that future is socialism or extinction.” At about the same time, an anonymous commenter on M4Carbine.net declared “this is why I keep buying ammo.”

[GeronL]

Leftism is going to cause the collapse

[Genoa]

Civilization is collapsing just fine and has been for years. Socialism is merely the icing on the cake.

[edcoil]

So Muslim outreach is now scaring the Muslims back to living in the stone age?

This is what happens when you create a space agency that no longer goes into space.

[AU72]

This not your father’s NASA.

[GeronL]

Bump

[Dallas59]

If it isn’t Muslims it’s the poor....NASA has nothing to do with space exploration.

[DManA]

I’m guessing none of the authors of this screed have crew cuts and pocket protectors.

[I want the USA back]

So they used some equations. Bull$hit. Anybody can make up equations about anything. Doesn’t mean they are right.

This is actually wishful thinking. True communists want to tear down the established order and replace it with their totalitarian form of all-encompassing control.

Have anything to do with “towelhead outreach?”

[cld51860]

They have to collapse it so they can replace it.

[edcoil]

I was just looking to see if the movie 2001 was on netflix’s yet, hell it was made in 1968. Nope

[GeronL]

Collapse civilization + ????? = utopia

[GeronL]

See if it’s on the free side of Hulu

[Zathras]

Had a friend who got a chance to work for NASA Ames back 20 years ago.
She had never met a bigger bunch of self important do nothing Phd in her life.
Left and went back into the private sector and never looked back.

[dhs12345]

Destroy the industry in industrialized countries like the United States and many will die of starvation and disease. It is ironic, but less industrialized countries will have a better chance of survival.

We take a lot for granted.

[pabianice]

H.G. Wells placed it at 802,701 AD.

[no-to-illegals]

oh NASA, take your moslems and go ____ yourself.

[hinckley buzzard]

Funded by NASA, written by a gaggle of idiot grad students.

[Starstruck]

Need top get rid of NASA, NEA, EPA, BATFE, IRS, HHS, NSA & TSA.

[edcoil]

Just the trailer