NASA-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?

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6. With a high tech enough civilization an asteroid couldn't sneak up on us

There are even plausible schemes to change the orbit of our planet to compensate for the warming of our sun as it ages.

A few more paragraphs from the article in the OP.

However, the scientists point out that the worst-case scenarios are by no means inevitable, and suggest that appropriate policy and structural changes could avoid collapse, if not pave the way toward a more stable civilisation.

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:

"Collapse can be avoided and population can reach equilibrium if the per capita rate of depletion of nature is reduced to a sustainable level, and if resources are distributed in a reasonably equitable fashion."