Dangerous Ideas Seminar
Speaker: Justin Werfel , MIT CSAIL & NECSI
Date: March 31 2005
Time: 1:00PM to 2:00PM
Location: Sem Rm D463 (Star)
Host: Tevfik Metin Sezgin
Contact: Tevfik Metin Sezgin, 617-253-2663, mtsezgin@csail.mit.edu
Relevant URL: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/dangerous-ideas/dangerous/www/Title: The End of the World is Near
Abstract: Evolving populations generically maintain a dynamic equilibrium with their environment, through a series of local extinction events, in which subpopulations come to overexploit available resources and drive themselves sharply to extinction. Humanity is no exception to this rule, with many historical examples of cultures which collapsed and vanished, in large part because of environmental damage and overexploitation of resources. We are currently well on course to bringing on such an event again, due to numerous pressing environmental concerns projected to become critical in the next several decades. Moreover, because of the extent of interconnectedness of the world today and the scope of several of those concerns, such an event would be not localized but global, with corresponding implications for its scope and severity.
co-sponsored by the New England Complex Systems Institute
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