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NASA-Backed Study: Polluter Tyranny Destroying Civilization
2014-03-16 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Kos: A new study backed by NASA warns that, much like the Romans and Mayans before us, our elite power brokers may be driving us towards a cliff as the 1% vacuums up wealth and natural resources: The NASA-funded HANDY model offers a highly credible wake-up call to governments, corporations and business - and consumers - to recognise that 'business as usual' cannot be sustained, and that policy and structural changes are required immediately. Although the study is largely theoretical, a number of...
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NASA-funded study says irreversible collapse industrial civilization likely coming decades
2014-03-15 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: 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...
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Can human civilization continue indefinitely?
2013-12-20 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Human beings have altered the Earth so much that human extinction is a real possibility if people continue on their current path. But if they can figure out a way to live sustainably, at least some human civilizations could become quasi-immortal, one researcher says. The challenge is to change the societal outlook to one that is long-term and accounts for humanity's central role in shaping the planet's destiny, instead of one that reacts to immediate crises and thinks in the short term. "For...
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Gambling with civilization
2013-10-24 14:37:59| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World by William D. Nordhaus Yale University Press, 378 pp., $30.00 1. Forty years ago a brilliant young Yale economist named William Nordhaus published a landmark paper, The Allocation of Energy Resources, that opened new frontiers in economic analysis.1 Nordhaus argued that to think clearly about the economics of exhaustible resources like oil and coal, it was necessary to look far into the future,...
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Science Supporting Abundant, Nourishing Food for a Growing Civilization
2013-09-09 02:25:09| Chemicals - Topix.net
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time Note to journalists: Please report that this research was presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society A press conference on this topic will be held Monday, Sept.
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