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  vs The Stand

  Or most of us could get wiped out by a super virus like in Stephen King's The Stand.

  Check out Robert Costanza's paper:
  "Visions of Alternative (Unpredictable) Futures and Their Use in Policy Analysis"

  http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol4/iss1/art5/

  Good as far as it goes, but he needs to include The Stand and Planet of the Apes in his possible future alternatives.On Can industrial civilization really become sustainable? Should it? posted 3 years, 3 months ago 40 Responses

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  Star Trek vs Mad Max vs Ecotopia

  vs Planet of the Apes. Which future vision do you subscribe to?  

  As usual, reality will most likely be some combination of the above, rather than one of the extreme visions.  

  It's unlikely that technology will solve everything, and just as likely that it will solve nothing.  It will solve some problems, but our lifestyles will have to change and adapt.  Civilization as we know it will end, but in its place will be a different kind of civilization.  Life will go on, it will just be different, just as our life and civilization today is different than what people experienced 150 or 200 years ago.  
  On Can industrial civilization really become sustainable? Should it? posted 3 years, 3 months ago 40 Responses