This Is Serious

NASA has a new study out that centers on the concern that civilization could abruptly collapse and based on this study it appears to be a strong possibility unless humanity does the seemingly impossible and reverses course on the many issues that plague us.

In the opening paragraphs the study states that......

"It is common to see human history as a relentless and inevitable trend toward greater levels of social complexity, political organization, and economic specialization, with the development of more complex and capable technologies supporting ever-growing population, all sustained by the mobilization of ever-increasing quantities of material, energy and information."

But that...

"In fact, cases where this seemingly near-universal, long-term trend has been severely disrupted by a precipitous collapse often lasting centuries have been quite common."

The two big issues that the study brings up are environmental degradation and income disparity and we are currently in the midst of a culture war over these things.

I'm pretty sure that this is how it goes every time: wealthy elites ignoring the world around them while thinking that their wealth and power is either justified by their mere existence or ordained in perpetuity by some god.

The study goes on to describe the conditions some of the instances and conditions of collapse that have occurred before in human history. Too bad the people causing the most disruption won't read this study or if they do, will dismiss it as the ravings of the liberal media.