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NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us
March 20, 2014 at 7:35 pm
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RE: NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us
March 20, 2014 at 8:21 pm
Hold my beer, I got this.
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RE: NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us
March 20, 2014 at 8:28 pm
The study seem to overlook the fact that collapse of individual social political entities as a result of the factors he described has never led to the global collapse of civilization. The study seem to be about forests but focused so much on the death of individual trees that it overlooked the long term growth of the forest, so to speak.
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RE: NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us
March 21, 2014 at 3:11 am
If it doesn't happen we need to make it a felony to predict the end of the world.
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RE: NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us
March 21, 2014 at 9:37 am
When society does collapse, the rich will be the first ones eaten.
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RE: NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us
March 21, 2014 at 10:03 am
(March 21, 2014 at 9:37 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: When society does collapse, the rich will be the first ones eaten.
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RE: NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us
March 21, 2014 at 11:39 am
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(March 21, 2014 at 9:37 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: When society does collapse, the rich will be the first ones eaten.
If you regard the collapse of western roman empire as an example of a collapse of society and civilization, you might find that to not be true in the example. When civilization collapses, the poor is ususally already so poor they can hardly get noticeably poorer. But while the rich certainly got a lot poorer compared to what they had before, on the whole they were still much better off than the poor. Of the successor societies that inherited the post collapse world, those which acted to protect the better off from the pre-collapse society also fared the best.
The notion that a major clusterfuck will encourage the thorough overturning of the society, as in the case of the French Revolution or the Balshivek revolution in Russia, appears to be the exception rather than the rule. Usually the post cataclysmic society acts to protect much of the privileges and wealths of much of the pre-cataclysm weathy.
There clearly are long lasting and durable advantages to being rich that can often survive more than one incarnations of civilized society as these societies see themselves.
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RE: NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us
March 21, 2014 at 1:28 pm
I'm referring to when money has no value and the wealthy have no survival skills, like how to grow your own food.
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RE: NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us
March 21, 2014 at 1:32 pm
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(March 21, 2014 at 1:28 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I'm referring to when money has no value and the wealthy have no survival skills, like how to grow your own food.
In the modern urbanized world, is the proportion of non-rich with such survival skills as growing your own food substantially greater than proportion of the rich?
Also, it seems unlikely the collapse of monetary economy, if it happens at all, will happen everywhere at once. So for the wealthy, there is plenty of time to see it coming and to maintain their advantage by converting money into such material wealth as would retain value in a barter economy.
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RE: NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It's Not Looking Good for Us
March 22, 2014 at 2:20 pm
Fusion power will keep the civilization from collapsing.
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