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Nasa-funded study warns of ?collapse of civilisation? in coming decades
?Business as usual? approach of economic elite will lead society to disaster, scientists warn
ADAM WITHNALL Author Biography Sunday 16 March 2014
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Motesharri explored the factors which could lead to the collapse of civilisation, from population growth to climate change, and found that when these converge they can cause society to break down because of the ?stretching of resources? and ?the economic stratification of society into ?Elites? and ?Masses??.
Using his Handy model to assess a scenario closely resembling the current state of the world, Motesharri found that civilisation ?appears to be on a sustainable path for quite a long time, but even using an optimal depletion rate and starting with a very small number of Elites, the Elites eventually consume too much, resulting in a famine among the Masses that eventually causes the collapse of society?.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...f-civilisation-in-coming-decades-9195668.html
?Business as usual? approach of economic elite will lead society to disaster, scientists warn
ADAM WITHNALL Author Biography Sunday 16 March 2014
snip
Motesharri explored the factors which could lead to the collapse of civilisation, from population growth to climate change, and found that when these converge they can cause society to break down because of the ?stretching of resources? and ?the economic stratification of society into ?Elites? and ?Masses??.
Using his Handy model to assess a scenario closely resembling the current state of the world, Motesharri found that civilisation ?appears to be on a sustainable path for quite a long time, but even using an optimal depletion rate and starting with a very small number of Elites, the Elites eventually consume too much, resulting in a famine among the Masses that eventually causes the collapse of society?.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...f-civilisation-in-coming-decades-9195668.html
