Conditions of sustainable civilizations
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Theses on the conditions of sustainable civilizations
- Sustainable civilizations manage to keep their population within limits, having neither growth nor decrease in the very long term
- Sustainable civilizations do not consume anything. They use what remains available and what is replentished at the same rate
- Sustainable civilizations manage to contain internal threats (e.g., conflicts) from reducing their population below critical lower limits or impeding its ability to pass on knowledge
- Sustainable civilizations manage to avert destruction by external threats (e.g., asteroids, averse climates, reversal of magnetic poles). This would seem to require significant technical capabilities
- Sustainable civilizations maintain or increase their knowledge
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