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Date of Publication: March 14, 2014
Year of Publication: 2014
Publication City: London, UK
Publisher: Guardian News and Media Limited
Author(s): Nafeez Ahmed
Newspaper: theguardian.com
Natural and social scientists develop new model of how ‘perfect storm’ of crises could unravel global system
A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution.
The two key solutions are to reduce economic inequality so as to ensure fairer distribution of resources, and to dramatically reduce resource consumption by relying on less intensive renewable resources and reducing population growth.
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