According to a thought-provoking paper by renowned systems theorist Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, human civilization may be approaching a similar transformative moment, or what researchers call a “planetary ...

Type 1 or “planetary” civilization: has harnessed all major forms of energy available from its home planet and also includes the energy received by the home world from its parent star.

The End of Civilization May Begin in Just 30 Years, According to a New Harrowing Report The threat climate change presents to humanity is increasing every passing year and will result in mass ...

There are, of course, natural limits to human technology. We can't travel in a straight line faster than the speed of light, for example.There may also be natural barriers to human knowledge ...

When it comes right down to it, the only examples we have to go on are "life as we know it" (aka Earth organisms) and human civilization. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ...

The Swiss law professor, who took on the U.N. role in 2016, warned that modern civilization is on a path set for collapse, and accused the U.S. of playing a major role in dismantling human rights.