Bread and Circuses on Nostr: Let's talk a little more about collapse. We know it's coming, and in fact may already ...
Let's talk a little more about collapse. We know it's coming, and in fact may already be underway, but how soon will it truly be noticeable not only to those of us who are 'collapse-aware' but to everyone else?
A few excerpts from an essay titled: "How Can We Tell When the Fall of Civilization Has Begun?"
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It won’t be a dramatic overnight thing. It will be gradual. Like climate change, there will be periods of intensity followed by lulls where you can almost pretend things are normal. But they’re not.
Increasingly, political strife and climate change will twine themselves inextricably together like a vine crawling up the walls of our fragile social and logistical constructs, exploiting cracks and crevices until what we know as civilization fails.
Who could imagine the world wasn’t big enough to hold all eight billion and more of us? Who could imagine exponential growth was not possible in a finite world? Who could imagine we would run out of oil someday without having something else ready to take its place? Who could imagine the failure of a sophisticated technological civilization?
A few people. Just not the right ones and not nearly enough of them.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://archive.ph/FlUVr
ALTERNATE LINK -- https://glenhendrix50.medium.com/how-can-we-tell-when-the-fall-of-civilization-has-begun-68c092f6bdec
#Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
A few excerpts from an essay titled: "How Can We Tell When the Fall of Civilization Has Begun?"
___________________________
It won’t be a dramatic overnight thing. It will be gradual. Like climate change, there will be periods of intensity followed by lulls where you can almost pretend things are normal. But they’re not.
Increasingly, political strife and climate change will twine themselves inextricably together like a vine crawling up the walls of our fragile social and logistical constructs, exploiting cracks and crevices until what we know as civilization fails.
Who could imagine the world wasn’t big enough to hold all eight billion and more of us? Who could imagine exponential growth was not possible in a finite world? Who could imagine we would run out of oil someday without having something else ready to take its place? Who could imagine the failure of a sophisticated technological civilization?
A few people. Just not the right ones and not nearly enough of them.
___________________________
FULL ESSAY -- https://archive.ph/FlUVr
ALTERNATE LINK -- https://glenhendrix50.medium.com/how-can-we-tell-when-the-fall-of-civilization-has-begun-68c092f6bdec
#Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis