Four Potential Scenarios for a Civilization-Planet System (IMAGE)

University of Rochester

Four Potential Scenarios for a Civilization-Planet System

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Four scenarios for the fate of civilizations and their planets, based on mathematical models developed by Adam Frank and his collaborators. The black line shows the trajectory of the civilization's population and the red line shows the co-evolving trajectory of the planet's state (a proxy for temperature).

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University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw

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