The end of the world, like everything worth knowing these days, will be tweeted:
NASA-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? | Nafeez Ahmed http://t.co/nWqOcD3UkB — Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) March 14, 2014
If a study with the imprimatur of a major U.S. government agency thinks civilization may soon be destined to fall apart, I want to know more about that. Click. The piece cuts to the chase in the opener:
A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilization could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution.
What follows is a straightforward summary of the paper, which the Guardian writer tells us has been accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal called Ecological Economics. I'm going to discuss the actual paper separately in the second part of this post. First, let's talk ...
