Are we headed for the end? A polar shit? A new ice age?? A climate change induce methane infused global suffocation and virtual extinction of the population??
When I was a freshman at Franklin Pierce College way back in the day, I was concerned about our country’s waste, flagrant disrespect for our natural resources, and the declining interest of a progressively more and more apathetic consumer culture. I wrote a paper comparing the social, behavioral and economic trends of the US to Rome before the fall. Of course I can’t say that I saved a copy but I wish I had. Today I just found this article posted in The Guardian from NASA research that basically confirms my concerns from years ago:
By investigating the human-nature dynamics of these past cases of collapse, the project identifies the most salient interrelated factors which explain civilisational decline, and which may help determine the risk of collapse today: namely, Population, Climate, Water, Agriculture, and Energy.
These factors can lead to collapse when they converge to generate two crucial social features: “the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity”; and “the economic stratification of society into Elites [rich] and Masses (or “Commoners”) [poor]” These social phenomena have played “a central role in the character or in the process of the collapse,” in all such cases over “the last five thousand years.”
