NASA PAO sent him the same link: http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~ekalnay/pubs/handy-paper-for-submission-2.pdf
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2014/03/its-the-end-of.html
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (Update)
By Keith Cowing on March 17, 2014 9:18 PM. 16 Comments
NASA-Backed Study Says Humanity Is Pretty Much Screwed, Gizmodo
"Hope you've enjoyed civilized 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."
Keith's note: I have asked NASA PAO for a copy of this report.
A Minimal Model for Human and Nature Interaction (PDF) as submitted.
"This work was partially funded through NASA/GSFC grant NNX12AD03A, known as "Col- laborative Earth System Science Research Between NASA/GSFC and UMCP" ... Even in the absence of economic stratification, collapse can still occur if depletion per capita is too high. However, 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."
Keith's update: It is rather baffling in the 21st Century for NASA to be funding research on the future of civilization that does not include extraterrestrial resources as part of the equation - at the same time that the agency wants to go grab an asteroid. The authors have their heads in the sand as they totally ignore the fact that Earth sits amidst vast resources outside of its biosphere. This is rehashed 1960s Club of Rome defeatist thinking all over again. I wonder how much money NASA wasted on this. I'll ask.
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