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I think we need to implement a "one-child policy" much like China
Technology is a double edged sword - for all it has given us, it has taken much away...
I think our major problem is denial......most people are in denial and they don't want to wake up, as long as they can eat, watch some reality tv and have a beer then they are happy and they don't see what's coming.
Whether it is environmental collapse or economical collapse, the richest will always have a better chance of survival......and I am not one of them.
th3dudeabides
duplicate.edit on 16-3-2014 by th3dudeabides because: 2x post.
the data shows that we are doomed within a few decades unless we take a drastic turn in a better direction
Dont get me wrong. I compleatly agree with you. But the bottom line is people have a choice. And they choose not to have to worrie about the poor or suffering cause they are happy. And they know worrying about something they have no control over as a individual is pointless and emotionally draining. Its like this, why should I sacrifice my happyness for someone else I either dont know or has no appreciation of happyness. As for Nasa, they are right, the collapse of society is inevitable. What I dont get is why did it have its funding slashed ? If we can build billion dollar sky scrapers and alternative propulsion systems then there is no reason why we cant build a space craft big enough to house 500 people in it. Or a space station for that matter. Its almost such that the space program has been suppressed from moving forward since the 1990s. Its now 2014. Were are the hova boards? Were is the free energy? Were are the holiday trips to the resort on the moon ? Were are the flying cars and 1 hour trips from your location to any other city in the world? Its almost as if we never really left the late 80s. We just repackaged our technology with new casing.
Agartha
benrl
Really, I didn't even need a Nasa study to figure that one out.
I second the above ^^
We are decimating forests and seas and polluting it all, if we don't change our ways drastically our children will suffer because of our mistakes. But, we won't die all at once or together because the gap between the rich and the poor is growing, and those with more money will survive longer than those that are already poorer.....in some countries people are still dying of hunger in the year 2014!
I think our major problem is denial......most people are in denial and they don't want to wake up, as long as they can eat, watch some reality tv and have a beer then they are happy and they don't see what's coming.
Whether it is environmental collapse or economical collapse, the richest will always have a better chance of survival......and I am not one of them.
You know it's funny, but I was reading the other thread that you posted the link to this thread (your thread in) and was asking myself the same question. Why would NASA be involved in this style of study or exercise in predicting the future based on what they perceive as societal ills? Odd.
Cinrad
NASA? Why NASA?
Anyway, since we know it is the powers that be that want a highly stratified society with all the wealth concentrated with them at the top, and that NASA is just an agency for said PTB, why publish this article?
A NASA-funded study says that the combination of population growth, wealth inequality and resource demand puts our current civilization at risk for collapse.
“There are widespread concerns that current trends in population and resource-use are unsustainable, but the possibilities of an overshoot and collapse remain unclear and contro- versial. Collapses have occurred frequently in the past five thousand years, and are often followed by centuries of economic, intellectual, and population decline. Many different nat- ural and social phenomena have been invoked to explain specific collapses, but a general explanation remains elusive. Two important features seem to appear across societies that have collapsed: (1) Ecological Strain and (2) Economic Stratification.
More in depth and good report on how they conducted the study:
northdenvernews.com...