Comments on: The ‘Sustainability Solution’ to the Fermi Paradox https://lifeboat.com/blog/2009/03/the-sustainability-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:41:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3 By: Open the Future https://lifeboat.com/blog/2009/03/the-sustainability-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox#comment-31893 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:41:41 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=313#comment-31893 Topsight, March 9, 2009…

• Geoengineering Hits the Big-Time: My guess is that 2009 will be seen as the year geoengineering hit the mainstream. Just in the last couple of weeks, we’ve had: A deep look at geoengineering in New Scientist, complete with.…..

]]> By: haqqmisra.net · Where have all the aliens gone? https://lifeboat.com/blog/2009/03/the-sustainability-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox#comment-31793 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:58:22 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=313#comment-31793 […] In a paper published in the February issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society titled “The Sustainability Solution to the Fermi Paradox”, we challenge this conclusion with the possibility that exponential growth is an unsustainable development. That is, even if an extraterrestrial civilization has colonized the galaxy, it would have done so through rapid unsustainable growth and collapsed upon reaching a physical resource limit. Not enough time has yet passed for a sustainable growth civilization to colonize the galaxy, so there is still promise in the search for extraterrestrial life. Furthermore, though the absence of extraterrestrial civilization does not imply the unsustainability of exponential growth, it does increase the probability that humanity should transition to sustainable development in order to prevent its collapse. A more detailed writeup is available on the Lifeboat Foundation blog. […]

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