Epilogue: Metabolisms, Entropy and Sustainable Society

Abstract

In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco… it was Werner’s own session that was attracting much of the buzz. It was titled “Is Earth F**ked?”… Standing at the front of the conference room, the geophysicist from the University of California, San Diego walked the crowd through the advanced computer model he was using to answer that question.