Societal Collapse

This isn’t a normal literature review post, but actually based on a podcast episode from the great Revolutions Podcast. I still include it here, as there are not that many great case studies for collapse after the industrial revolution and what happened here is quite relevant to the overall discussion... [Read More]

How warm will it get? This question is probably on the mind of every person dealing with the issue of climate change. It is so important because all other consequences of climate change depend on it. The less the earth warms, the better mankind will cope with it. In the... [Read More]

“How do we know there is such a thing as a long-term version of our kind of civilization?” Adam Frank [Read More]

End of an age Why do civilizations collapse? For some civilizational collapses in the past there is one striking event that leads to a quick end, like environmental damage for the people on the Easter Islands. For other civilizations, several causes interact with each other, as it happened for the... [Read More]