Comments on: From the “we’re all doomed” file https://www.habitablezone.com/2012/04/04/from-the-were-all-doomed-file/ Tue, 12 May 2026 20:11:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TB https://www.habitablezone.com/2012/04/04/from-the-were-all-doomed-file/#comment-13271 TB Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:32:25 +0000 http://habitablezone.net/?p=12414#comment-13271 <p>Unless, of course, we adopt the recommended "stabilized world" scenario referenced in <a href="http://www.csiro.au/files/files/plje.pdf" rel="nofollow">Turner's paper.</a></p> He slammed protection all over this document so I can't list excerpts, but just do a text search for "stabilized world" to see what it entails. Unless, of course, we adopt the recommended “stabilized world” scenario referenced in Turner’s paper.

He slammed protection all over this document so I can’t list excerpts, but just do a text search for “stabilized world” to see what it entails.

]]> By: bowser https://www.habitablezone.com/2012/04/04/from-the-were-all-doomed-file/#comment-13269 bowser Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:24:50 +0000 http://habitablezone.net/?p=12414#comment-13269 Does anyone doubt this? Consider the pressures. Global warming, with disruption of fresh water resources, food production, population centers. There will be wars. Continuing poverty, with the wealthy getting wealthier and the poorer poorer. There will be revolutions. More expensive energy, with wealthier nations leaving little for the poorer nations. There will be wars. (The US was willing to go to war over Iraq's oil even this early in the century. If China had contested that instead of waiting and outbidding the US later, it could have been uglier.) Wars are expensive, wasteful, and consume vast amounts of energy and other resources. Wars fought over scarce resources seem especially foolish, but that's the way it's been since Man could sharpen a stick. Does anyone doubt this? Consider the pressures.

Global warming, with disruption of fresh water resources, food production, population centers. There will be wars.

Continuing poverty, with the wealthy getting wealthier and the poorer poorer. There will be revolutions.

More expensive energy, with wealthier nations leaving little for the poorer nations. There will be wars. (The US was willing to go to war over Iraq’s oil even this early in the century. If China had contested that instead of waiting and outbidding the US later, it could have been uglier.)

Wars are expensive, wasteful, and consume vast amounts of energy and other resources. Wars fought over scarce resources seem especially foolish, but that’s the way it’s been since Man could sharpen a stick.

]]> By: VelociraptorBlade https://www.habitablezone.com/2012/04/04/from-the-were-all-doomed-file/#comment-13267 VelociraptorBlade Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:23:56 +0000 http://habitablezone.net/?p=12414#comment-13267 I wonder what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies" rel="nofollow">Renaissance Technologies</a> predicts for then? If anything, they're the guys who'd know when this stuff would happen. I wonder what Renaissance Technologies predicts for then? If anything, they’re the guys who’d know when this stuff would happen.

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