Proceedings of the Royal Society: 'Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?'

[Paul Mobbs]

Well, that'll set the cat amongst the pigeons -- until the pigeons are
exhausted and the cat population collapses! ;-)

If only the "environmentalists" had stuck to ecology rather than going
down the affluent consumerism route in the 1990s, perhaps we'd have got
somewhere by now?

Well worth a read -- along with the MIT/Smithsonian "Limits to Growth
40th Anniversary" seminar videos/articles last May --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2oyU0RusiA
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Is-it-Too-Late-for-Sustainable-Development.html


P.



http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1754/20122845.full
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1754/20122845.full.pdf+html

Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided?

Paul R. Ehrlich† and Anne H. Ehrlich
Published online: January 9, 2013
Print version: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol.280 no.1754, 7th
March 2013


Abstract

Environmental problems have contributed to numerous collapses of
civilizations in the past. Now, for the first time, a global collapse
appears likely. Overpopulation, overconsumption by the rich and poor
choices of technologies are major drivers; dramatic cultural change
provides the main hope of averting calamity. 

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God, and with one another, that these things may abound."
(Edward Burrough, 1659 - from 'Quaker Faith and Practice')

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