NASA-Backed Study Says Humanity Is Pretty Much Screwed

[everything count to life]

Hope you’ve enjoyed civilised life, folks. Because a new study sponsored by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center says the world’s industrial societies are poised to collapse under the weight of their own unsustainable appetites for resources. There goes the weekend… and everything after it for the rest of our lives.

Read more: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/03/nasa-backed-study-says-humanity-is-pretty-much-screwed/

[Imabigmac]

Wait this "new" news? How dumb/blind did you have to be too not see that our lifestyles aren't sustainable and that eventually all creatures become extinct anyway.

 

And here we are reading this (most of us) on some ridiculous overkill computer that we upgrade every year or two and spend thousands on meanwhile there are people who don't know where their next meal will come from. 

[Tea1337]

It's okay. I live in the middle of the desert and most people around here use electric cars. You darn big city people!

[TheNinjaNextDor]

I'll be dead for most of these things...

[Tea1337]

I'll be dead by then anyway...

At the current rate it is possible it will happen in our lifetimes. 

[DBells94]

well considering i could die tommorow ran over by a bus i really dont care, since we're born we're meant to die so yeah

[TheNinjaNextDor]

At the current rate it is possible it will happen in our lifetimes.

Yeah, but most of those things aren't too hard to get around. I would say the biggest is oil.

[Tea1337]

Yeah, but most of those things aren't too hard to get around. I would say the biggest is oil.

Or the staggering amount of fossil fuels we burn because the government is too hard headed to realize that going electric is 600x better. Or the air in Beijing china, breathing the air there is the same as smoking 22 cigarettes a day. For companies it's all about money, they aren't a bit worried about the fact that they place that is allowing them to live is being destroyed because of their thoughtless actions

[JamGorby]

Humans, the only animal capable of arrogance. 

99% of all species to have ever existed on Earth is now extinct and we think we can save ourselves. pffft.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Or the staggering amount of fossil fuels we burn because the government is too hard headed to realize that going electric is 600x better. Or the air in Beijing china, breathing the air there is the same as smoking 22 cigarettes a day. For companies it's all about money, they aren't a bit worried about the fact that they place that is allowing them to live is being destroyed because of their thoughtless actions

The worst part is that humans caused it and can stop it. We just don't and most regular people who care can't because it's all huge corporations with 1000x more power and money.

[Tea1337]

Humans, the only animal capable of arrogance. 

99% of all species to have ever existed on Earth is now extinct and we think we can save ourselves. pffft.

We are also the most advanced animals to walk  the earth, so we possible can save ourselves. 

 

The worst part is that humans caused it and can stop it. We just don't and most regular people who care can't because it's all huge corporations with 1000x more power and money.

That is very true.

[Imabigmac]

It's okay. I live in the middle of the desert and most people around here use electric cars. You darn big city people!

I guess when the and lake mead and the Colorado river dry up, the people in the north will laugh at you for living in the desert. 

 

 

I'm sure you don't rely on my examples for your water, they are only examples after all. 

[RelentlessAF]

It's okay. I live in the middle of the desert and most people around here use electric cars. You darn big city people!

Hydrogen cars would be a good technology to invest in.

[Tea1337]

I guess when the and lake mead and the Colorado river dry up, the people in the north will laugh at you for living in the desert. 

 

 

I'm sure you don't rely on my examples for your water, they are only examples after all. 

That's not funny I live along the Colorado! and I was being sarcastic in that statement. Us desert people can just move up north and laugh with you 

[JamGorby]

We are also the most advanced animals to walk  the earth, so we possible can save ourselves. 

 

That is very true.

It was just over 14 years ago we were shitting bricks because we weren't smart enough to figure out that computers don't consider "00" a year. We aren't as advanced as we think we are. 

[Tea1337]

It was just over 14 years ago we were shitting bricks because we weren't smart enough to figure out that computers don't consider "00" a year. We aren't as advanced as we think we are. 

Human trial and error

[Imabigmac]

That's not funny I live along the Colorado! and I was being sarcastic in that statement. Us desert people can just move up north and laugh with you 

then electric cars become less feasible the farther north you go. 

[Tea1337]

then electric cars become less feasible the farther north you go. 

we will place the solar panels in the desert and wire the power up north, where it's cold, depressing, and cold.

[Imabigmac]

we will place the solar panels in the desert and wire the power up north, where it's cold, depressing, and cold.

Not a bad idea, I like, wanna make a start up company, you take care of the solar panels, I will find some sucker hippie in Canada to sell it to and I'm sure Elon Musk would be open to investing in the "electric pipeline" and Obama may just approve it. 

[Lord Pantaloons]

pfft, I've known this for years these fuckers are farther behind than I thought.

[Kamina]

And life goes on like normal.

[Almercenary]

so positive.  But I think this was inevitable anyway.

[squirrl]

For some reason i read this as NSA backed study...

[qwertywarrior]

well it kinda depends

for power

ITER experiment will solve most if not all of our power needs since it will give rise to actual power plants  after a few decades

and  in the short term more advanced Thorium reactors will provide safe cheap nuclear power

Graphene will solve the electricity storage problems lithium is expensive and inefficient  (read up on capacitors )

 

and lets say this all fails

it doesnt mean extinction of the human race 

[Imabigmac]

well it kinda depends

for power

ITER experiment will solve most if not all of our power needs since it will give rise to actual power plants  after a few decades

and  in the short term more advanced Thorium reactors will provide safe cheap nuclear power

Graphene will solve the electricity storage problems lithium is expensive and inefficient  (read up on capacitors )

 

and lets say this all fails

it doesnt mean extinction of the human race 

of course all of the new technologies rely on adoption, if Shell and Excon, or some other company which has huge role in our current world tries to stop the adoption of the tech we may continue in the wrong direction for more time.