Collapse

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This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.

Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.

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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? (www.irishtimes.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to c/collapse@lemm.ee

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If fossil fuels keep burning at present rates, we are headed for apocalyptic civilisational collapse. Perhaps even more strangely, there is no longer much serious disagreement about this claim.

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[–] eleitl@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, exponential processes running into planetary limitations do tend to end that way. First gradually, then suddenly. They rarely tell a happy story though.