{"id":25705,"date":"2018-06-25T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25705"},"modified":"2018-06-25T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:38:07","slug":"theres-a-compelling-explanation-for-why-weve-never-found-aliens-and-it-could-mean-humanity-is-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/06\/25\/theres-a-compelling-explanation-for-why-weve-never-found-aliens-and-it-could-mean-humanity-is-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a compelling explanation for why we&#8217;ve never found aliens \u2014 and it could mean humanity is doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Business Insider<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/climate-change-could-answer-fermi-paradox-2018-6\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s a compelling explanation for why we&#8217;ve never found aliens \u2014 and it could mean humanity is doomed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA study recently published in the journal Astrobiology suggests there are four different scenarios a civilization can follow as it develops. One of those four pathways leads to sustainable existence. But in the other three, civilizations overuse resources and collapse or die off as a result.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article also links to the <em>YouTube<\/em> video <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uoISn18qP_E\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Could Alien Civilizations Predict the Fate of Our Planet?<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/uoISn18qP_E?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider has the article There&#8217;s a compelling explanation for why we&#8217;ve never found aliens \u2014 and it could mean humanity is doomed. A study recently published in the journal Astrobiology suggests there are four different scenarios a civilization can follow as it develops. One of those four pathways leads to sustainable existence. But in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25706,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25705\/revisions\/25706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}