Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?

The Nasa has made a study about records of old civilizations along the history that has fails and collapsed because they reach a point in them development that isn't sustainable anymore. This is compared with our era noticing that we are reaching the same point unless we change our civilization's behavior.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/14/nasa-civilisation-irreversible-collapse-study-scientists