{"id":10403,"date":"2014-03-20T08:43:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10403"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:15:30","slug":"nasa-study-concludes-when-civilization-will-end-and-its-not-looking-good-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/nasa-study-concludes-when-civilization-will-end-and-its-not-looking-good-for-us","title":{"rendered":"NASA Study Concludes When Civilization Will End, And It\u2019s Not Looking Good for Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a class=\"link-author\" title=\"Tom McKay's Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.policymic.com\/profiles\/1514\/tom-mckay\">Tom McKay \u2014 Polymic<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/> Civilization was pretty great while it lasted, wasn\u2019t it? Too bad it\u2019s not going to for much longer. According to a new study sponsored by NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center, we only have a few decades left before everything we know and hold dear collapses.<\/p>\n<p>The report, written by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesync.org\/\">National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center<\/a> along with a team of natural and social scientists<em>,<\/em> explains that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/earth-insight\/2014\/mar\/14\/nasa-civilisation-irreversible-collapse-study-scientists\">modern civilization is doomed<\/a>. And there\u2019s not just one particular group to blame, but the entire fundamental structure and nature of our society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.policymic.com\/articles\/85541\/nasa-study-concludes-when-civilization-will-end-and-it-s-not-looking-good-for-us\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom McKay \u2014 Polymic Civilization was pretty great while it lasted, wasn\u2019t it? Too bad it\u2019s not going to for much longer. According to a new study sponsored by NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center, we only have a few decades left before everything we know and hold dear collapses. The report, written by applied [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47173,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10403\/revisions\/47173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}