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Dec 5, 2023 · A scientific analysis of history reveals that societies are becoming more resilient to collapse – and shows how to successfully navigate crises, says complexity scientist Peter Turchin.
The collapse of the Anasazi, the Tiwanaku civilisation, the Akkadians, the Mayan, the Roman Empire, and many others have all coincided with abrupt climatic changes, usually droughts.
- Luke Kemp
- Unlike all previous civilizations, modern industrial civilization is powered by an exceptionally rich, NON-renewable, and irreplaceable energy source—fossil fuels.
- Unlike past civilizations, the economy of industrial society is capitalist. Production for profit is its prime directive and driving force.
- Unlike past societies, industrial civilization isn’t Roman, Chinese, Egyptian, Aztec, or Mayan. Modern civilization is HUMAN, PLANETARY, and ECOCIDAL.
- Human civilization’s collective capacity to confront its mounting crises is crippled by a fragmented political system of antagonistic nations ruled by corrupt elites who care more about power and wealth than people and the planet.
Apr 25, 2024 · Pre-modern states and civilisations became more prone to collapse as time passed – a pattern that holds lessons for today's ageing global powers.
The UK and Ireland are among five nations most likely to survive a collapse of global civilisation, researchers have said. A study has suggested a combination of ecological destruction, limited ...
Apr 18, 2017 · “Western nations are not going to collapse, but the smooth operation and friendly nature of Western society will disappear, because inequity is going to explode,” Randers argues.
Jun 8, 2020 · It’s not just climate change that is leading us to collapse but also the fact that nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history. Around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades.
