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If the United States wants to avoid falling like the Roman Empire, it must avoid “overconsumption” and distribute resources equally, according to a study funded by NASA.  

 

“The fall of the Roman Empire, and the equally (if not more) advanced Han, Mauryan, and Gupta Empires, as well as so many advanced Mesopotamian Empires, are all testimony to the fact that advanced, sophisticated, complex, and creative civilizations can be both fragile and impermanent,” reads the NASA-funded report published in the Ecological Economics journal.

“Collapse can be avoided, and population can reach a steady state at the maximum carrying capacity, if the rate of depletion of nature is reduced to a sustainable level, and if resources are distributed equitably,” according to the report.

I believe this report in right in that the wealthy do and will consume too much leading to the collapse of western society.  I do not think communism is the way to go but really the report isnt calling for communism so much as it is calling for equality.   You can’t have the top 1% of Earth’s population with as much wealth as the bottom 50%.  You can’t do it and when the time comes it is going to bite them right in the butt.  If history has taught us anything it is that revolution is inevitable.