Scientist asks, "Is Earth Fucked?" ›
Short answer: Yes, so long as we continue extracting and polluting the earth’s resources.
Brad Werner, a complex-systems analyst at UC San Diego, spoke Wednesday in San Francisco at the American Geophysical Union conference, io9 reports. The talk’s title: “Is Earth F**ked? Dynamical Futility of Sustainability via Direct Action Activism:”
“What happens is not too surprising: the economy very fast chews up the environmental resources, depletes those reservoirs, resulting in a significant amount of environmental damage,” Werner said during his talk. He is still finishing up the model, so no details on the inputs and the final simulations are available. Still, I asked him afterward to clarify if his model had answered his baseline question. Is Earth fucked? “More or less,” he said.The answer, he says, is activism.
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Make your own luck
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sam3prince answered:
No more waiting. >: o
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The Earth wil survive, chill out. We just might not.
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The problem with saying this is that they assume the progression of the depletion of resources can be modeled by a...
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Brad Werner, a complex-systems analyst at UC San Diego, spoke Wednesday in San Francisco at the American Geophysical Union conference, 
