NASA has funded a study that tries to identify common factors in why civilizations collapse. The study cites a few-- among them population, agricultural failure, climate, energy, unequal wealth distribution, etc. In short, many of the usual suspects.
Oddly, perhaps, since NASA funded it, the study did not try to factor in the effect the industrialization of space would have on the fate of the civilization that accomplished it. Extending an economy into space would wipe out resource scarcity. It would drive technological development. It would vastly increase the wealth available to fund efforts to bring people out of poverty. Moving into space would lift a civilization to a new level.
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