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Overpopulation and the Collapse of Civilization

October 17, 2022

Overpopulation and the Collapse of Civilization A major shared goal of the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) and Sustainability Central  is reducing the odds that the “perfect storm” of environmental problems that threaten humanity will lead to a collapse of civilization.  Those threats include  climate disruption, loss of biodiversity (and thus ecosystem […]

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Part 2. How long do civilizations last on average? 336 years

May 8, 2019

Part 2. How long do civilizations last on average? 336 years I stopped trying to find out why each civilization failed in Wiki because it’s not always clear and historians bicker over it, though it’s clear drought, invasions, civil wars, and famines played a role in most of them.  Yet what’s seldom mentioned is that […]

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“Collapse Of Civilisation Is On The Horizon” – Attenborough Warns World Leaders

December 4, 2018

“Collapse Of Civilisation Is On The Horizon” – Attenborough Warns World Leaders (Editors note: The world faces some very serious ecological challenges due to the pollution, destruction and over consumption of our natural resources. What we find quite bizarre is the complete cognitive dissonance between the increasingly alarming warnings of absolute environmental Armageddon and the […]

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Paris Attacks and Climate Change Push Us to Fix a World of Broken Systems

November 24, 2015

Paris Attacks and Climate Change Push Us to Fix a World of Broken Systems The rise of ISIS, the “war on terror,” the attack on Paris—these are symptoms of a civilization in its twilight. But the displays of global solidarity show that the seeds of a new paradigm are being planted. In much the same […]

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Collapse, Part 5: Things Fall Apart

June 26, 2015

Collapse, Part 5: Things Fall Apart  It is impossible to wean an economy that relies on debt and leverage for its “growth” of excessive debt and leverage. As noted earlier in this series, collapse is not an event, it’s a process, a process we experience as things fall apart. The phrase famously appears in William Butler Yeats’ […]

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Collapse, Part 2: The Nine Dynamics of Decay

June 23, 2015

Collapse, Part 2: The Nine Dynamics of Decay  Rome didn’t fall so much as erode away. That’s the template for collapse. While collapse may be sudden, the decay that generated the collapse had been rotting away the foundation for years or decades. In distilling the vast literature on collapse into nine dynamics, I am drawing upon […]

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