How to spot if society is DOOMED: Researchers reveal the signs that show civilization is set to collapse
如何得知社会一定走向灭亡?研究者透露,有这几个暗示,文明必定灭亡
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Charles
Survival will not go to the most intelligent nor the most physically perfect of our species...Survival will go to the most adaptable of our species...wherever that may lead us.Magnet4redarrowsReply toCharles
Remember the biblical saying, 'The meek shall inherit the earth!' Who are the meek? Smaller species that seem to survive cataclysm while their larger cousins die out? But about human kind, should I be politically incorrect and comment on welfare recipients (the meek), regardless of actual need?AC
This is very relevant.. to people living in Neolithic societies. However for people living in western liberal civilisation there are MUCH MUCH significant indicators of impending collapse. The rise of Leftist politics which rewards mediocrity, the policing of thought to avoid triggering proponents of ideas which cannot survive critical scrutiny, the tolerance of things and ideologies that should not be tolerated.Peter Hood
One obvious clue lies in the availability and consumption of water. Angkor Wat seems to have suffered a shortage and then sharp decline, as did a sophisticated north India culture. Either the Pueblo culture or a related pre Mexican culture seems to have suffered this fate. Over expansion at the expense of resources is the mallet like clue above the head.Timmy2Much
J. D. Unwin - Studied the fall of the major civilisations and numerous tribes. His conclusions would not make liberals very happy. Everyone needs to research his works if the west is to have a chance of surviving.peter1008
It has come down to the US election , and everyone knows it , Clinton gets in and its curtains if Trump wins the world has a chance , Mainland Europe is gone and will never recover from Merkel's madness , the UK still has a chance but will depend on a Trump win , as for us we were sold out by stealthPrivateSi
A debt based economy with high taxation and extortionate infrastructure use run by the greediest people on the planet is the usual recipe for economic meltdown.Millymollymandy73
History repeats itself and human beings NEVER learn. We are all born flawed.Violet
What do they mean by "a socio-ecological trap where strong reinforcing behaviour and a lack of innovation prevents adaptation"? Failing to follow the salmon upstream? Refusing to try crop rotation? Dependence on the cotton gin or fossil fuel? Be nice to have some examples, neolithic and modern.