The life-expectancy of industrial civilization is defined. A feedback model of the human life-support system is used to study system controllability at the global level. The inadequacies of control, calculations based on energy-use data, and other considerations are used to theorize that the life-expectancy of industrial civilization is less than 100 years.

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• 1991

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