NASA is distancing itself from a brand new research that investigates how unsustainable useful resource exploitation and rising revenue inequality may probably result in the collapse of human civilization as we all know it.
NASA officers launched this assertion on the research right now (March 20): “A soon-to-be printed analysis paper, ‘Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use of Sources within the Collapse or Sustainability of Societies’ by College of Maryland researchers Safa Motesharrei and Eugenia Kalnay, and College of Minnesota’s Jorge Rivas, was not solicited, directed or reviewed by NASA. It’s an unbiased research by the college researchers using analysis instruments developed for a separate NASA exercise. As is the case with all unbiased analysis, the views and conclusions within the paper are these of the authors alone. NASA doesn’t endorse the paper or its conclusions.”
The study, which has been accepted for publication within the journal Ecological Economics, acquired numerous consideration lately. For instance, a narrative about it that ran final Friday (March 14) within the British newspaper The Guardian had been shared greater than 113,000 instances on Fb as of right now (March 20) and was picked up by Gizmodo and different media shops. Lots of the media stories concerning the forthcoming paper have made a lot of NASA’s involvement. The Guardian’s story, for instance, sports activities the next headline: “Nasa-funded research: industrial civilisation headed for ‘irreversible collapse’?” Such accounts motivated the house company to difficulty the assertion as a clarification.
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