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By investigating the human-nature dynamics of these past cases of collapse, the project identifies the most salient interrelated factors which explain civilisational decline, and which may help determine the risk of collapse today: namely, Population, Climate, Water, Agriculture, and Energy.
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Benno Hansen
How to Talk to a Science Denier without Arguing - Scientific American Blog Network - 0 views
Arid land to a fertile Eden: permaculture lessons from Portugal | Global Development Pr... - 0 views
Naomi Klein: Economic Model Is at War With Life on Earth: Video - Bloomberg - 3 views
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7:23 video: Naomi Klein, author of "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate," discusses climate change and the economics of the energy industry with Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock."
Policy: An intergovernmental panel on antimicrobial resistance : Nature News & Comment - 0 views
Deadly Environment - 6 views
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This report looks at known killings of people defending environmental and land rights. It identifies a clear rise in such deaths from 2002 and 2013 as competition for natural resources intensifies. In the most comprehensive global analysis of the problem on record, we have found that at least 908 people have died in this time. Disputes over industrial logging, mining and land rights are the key drivers, and Latin America and Asia-Pacific particularly hard hit.
Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? | Nafeez... - 0 views
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NASA har lavet Collapse 2 ?
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These factors can lead to collapse when they converge to generate two crucial social features: "the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity"; and "the economic stratification of society into Elites [rich] and Masses (or "Commoners") [poor]" These social phenomena have played "a central role in the character or in the process of the collapse," in all such cases over "the last five thousand years."
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The study challenges those who argue that technology will resolve these challenges by increasing efficiency: "Technological change can raise the efficiency of resource use, but it also tends to raise both per capita resource consumption and the scale of resource extraction, so that, absent policy effects, the increases in consumption often compensate for the increased efficiency of resource use."
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la ciencia nos dice que hay una revuelta - 4 views
Fossil Free Resources - Fossil Free - 1 views
Dealing with climate change? Think like an octopus - The Daily Climate - 1 views
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"Adaptability is how all biological organisms have dealt with the fact that they can never eliminate the risks."
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Nature's mechanisms for dealing with that are fairly simple, he added: They're decentralized, they have redundant parts, they form highly symbiotic networks, and they iterate success.
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