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[permaculture] The utter collapse of human civilization will be ‘difficult to avoid,’ NASA funded study says | National Post

From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] The utter collapse of human civilization will be ‘difficult to avoid,’ NASA funded study says | National Post
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:10:53 -0400

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/18/the-utter-collapse-of-human-civilization-will-be-difficult-to-avoid-nasa-funded-study-says/

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.

[permaculture] The utter collapse of human civilization will be ‘difficult to avoid,’ NASA funded study says | National Post, Lawrence London, 03/19/2014