Historian and complexity scientist, Dan Hoyer, examines why past societies collapsed when faced with crisis, while others founds ways to survive and flourish.
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Jem Bendell encourages us to think about societal collapse in ways that are ‘profound and startlingly original’, with the potential to birth whole new social movements, says Tom Doig.
The UN estimates the global population will pass 8 billion people on Nov. 15, 2022. From the Stone Age to today, here’s how things spiraled out of control.
A change in climate may have triggered the decline and collapse of the Mayan city of Mayapán in the 15th century.
Our food, finance, and logistics systems are worringly vulnerable to climate shocks – we can’t rule out collapses within a decade.
Many tourists hold an outdated romanticized image of an abandoned temple emerging from the jungle. But research around Angkor Wat suggests its collapse might be better described as a transformation.
Collapse porn. Apocalyptica. Eco-rapture. A growing genre of environmental writing that sees endless economic growth as the enemy.
Giving women equal rights is a critical step in avoiding societal collapse. The main drivers of societal collapse are overpopulation…
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Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Professor, University of Tasmania
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Professor & Director, Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon
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Global Futures Professor and Professor of Theoretical Biology and History of Biology, Arizona State University
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Senior lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, The University of Queensland
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Senior Researcher, Historian and Complexity Scientist, University of Toronto
