A scientific study on the imminent dangers of our societys lifestyle choices and our glorious short-sightedness. We are the one and only generation in the entire human history that has had access to all the accumulated information civilization has acquired from all the corners of the Earth, and instead of seeing the obvious patterns and draw the simple conclusions, we, as a society opt to keep our eyes wide shut in the vain hope that our children will somehow magically salvage themselves from the mess we are creating for them. Irresponsible, greedy, selfish and ugly are words that come to mind without a second thought. By investigating the human-nature dynamics of these past cases of collapse, the project identifies the most salient interrelated factors which explain civilisational decline, and which may help determine the risk of collapse today: namely, Population, Climate, Water, Agriculture, and Energy. These factors can lead to collapse when they converge to generate two crucial social features: the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity; and the economic stratification of society into Elites [rich] and Masses (or Commoners) [poor] These social phenomena have played a central role in the character or in the process of the collapse, in all such cases over the last five thousand years.
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