{"id":50142,"date":"2019-12-16T08:06:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T13:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50142"},"modified":"2019-12-16T08:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T13:06:38","slug":"why-collapse-is-not-always-a-bad-thing-the-new-book-by-ugo-bardi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50142","title":{"rendered":"Why Collapse is not always a bad thing: the New Book by Ugo Bardi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cassandralegacy.blogspot.com\/2019\/12\/why-collapse-is-not-always-bad-thing.html\">Why Collapse is not always a bad thing: the New Book by Ugo Bardi<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you wish to receive a review copy or want to interview the author, please contact:&nbsp;<br>Elizabeth Hawkins | Springer Nature | Communications&nbsp;<br>tel +49 6221 487 8130 |&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:elizabeth.hawkins@springer.com\">elizabeth.hawkins@springer.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"\"><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-EcHDZZKUKyk\/XfdifU3CfLI\/AAAAAAAAqgw\/b_ukkG-pRKQCDZ083VR7oWmbDP2T7j3bACLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/image001.png\"><\/a><strong>PRESS RELEASEWhy collapse is not always a bad thingNew book provides an analysis of the process of failure and collapse, and outlines principles that help us manage these challenges in our lives<\/strong> Heidelberg | New York, 12 December 2019<a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XfTb834sQuQ\/XfdioqHgxJI\/AAAAAAAAqg0\/7meuzQ4nel4MO_gtruIsxXOGwTMZ-zy9gCLcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/image003.jpg\"><\/a>Image: \u00a9 Springer Nature\u00a0<br><br>Everyone experiences collapse in their lives: you may lose your job, get sick, or a close friend or family member may die. Collapse also happens to structures such as buildings, and on a larger scale affects whole systems like companies, communities or even civilisations. In his latest book, Before the Collapse: A Guide to the Other Side of Growth, Ugo Bardi sets out an approach for facing failure and collapse on all scales. He calls his method the \u201cSeneca Strategy\u201d based on the teachings of the ancient Roman philosopher, Lucius Annaeus Seneca.<br><br>Bardi draws on Seneca\u2019s philosophy to explain why collapse is a necessary part of our lives and the world, and why trying to avoid it may lead to bigger problems later on. Seneca recognised that growth is slow but ruin is rapid, yet sudden collapse does not have to take us by surprise. In six concise chapters, Bardi outlines the science behind the collapse of complex systems, how the future can be modelled, and gives numerous examples of past and possible future collapses. Some of the cases Bardi lists include natural disasters, like Florence\u2019s Great Flood, the collapse of a business such as the bankruptcy of the video rental service Blockbuster, as well as famines, epidemics and depopulation. As Seneca famously said: \u201cNothing that exists today is not the result of past collapse.\u201d<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Collapse is not always a bad thing: the New Book by Ugo Bardi If you wish to receive a review copy or want to interview the author, please contact:&nbsp;Elizabeth Hawkins | Springer Nature | Communications&nbsp;tel +49 6221 487 8130 |&nbsp;elizabeth.hawkins@springer.com PRESS RELEASEWhy collapse is not always a bad thingNew book provides an analysis of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[150,2692],"class_list":["post-50142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-ugo-bardi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50143,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50142\/revisions\/50143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}