The resolutions of
factors responsible for climate change are the key also to rescuing humanity
from reaching a rather catastrophic conclusion.
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| NASA has funded a study that suggests humanity is headed toward the collapse of industrial civilization. |
We simply need to use less and therefore consume less energy
and within that use fewer of the earth’s irreplaceable resources.
Sounds simple enough, but it is not.
Market driven consumer economy that pervades the world has a
momentum, and a grip on the human psyche that is taking us irresistibly toward
collapse.
The inequality of wealth distribution worsens every day and
further weakens the understanding the elite have of the fragility of humanity.
The idea of the collapse of global industrial civilization
within the coming decades is discussed in a story published by The Guardian headed: “NASA-funded study: industrial civilization headed for ’irreversible collapse’?”.
The story says: “The
NASA-funded HANDY model offers a highly credible wake-up call to governments,
corporations and business - and consumers - to recognize that 'business as
usual' cannot be sustained, and that policy and structural changes are required
immediately”.
Beneath the Wisteria convener, Robert McLean, believes are only hope
of avoiding catastrophic climate change and the collapse the Guardian story
discusses is to be found in structural and systemic changes to how we
presently live.
“We need to
immediately implement understood renewable energy technologies to power the
human society; change our voracious appetite for energy and resource-rich consumer
goods; understand that contentment arises from contemplation rather than the
brutality of action aimed only at acquisition of goods; and in everything we do
work toward making this a more equitable society,” Robert said.
He said that if
we were able to mitigate causes of climate change, we might have some hope of
avoiding the irreversible collapse of the modern civilized industrial
civilization.
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