http://www.newsweek.com/aliens-environmental-apocalypse-959332

An environmental apocalypse driven by climate change and plundered resources is a terrifying prospect: dry forests burning in the blistering heat, seas swelling with Arctic ice and humans starving as crops fail across the planet.

But is this Armageddon inevitable? Is our technology-hungry species built to fail? An international team of scientists writing in the journal Astrobiology have turned to hypothetical alien civilizations to find out if a truly sustainable society is even possible.