Named for Africa's Olduvai Gorge, Olduvai theory predicts that industrial/technological civilization is a "transient pulse" between periods of stable global equilibrium, with the period of highest modernization lasting only approximately 100 years (1930-2030).
Monday, July 07, 2008
Posted by Gerry Canavan at 1:45 AM
Labels: 2030, apocalypse, energy, Fermi paradox, futurity, modernity, Olduvai theory, Peak Oil, primitivism
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