[Plantagenet]

Global collapse due to peak didn't happen in 2000 or 2005 or 2010 as various models predicted. But some still think the world economy will collapse when we finally reach global peak oil sometime in the next 5-10 years.

Some scientists now think global warming will destroy advanced human civilization, or overpopulation, or the contradictions of capitalism, or nuclear war. Still others think there will be a great religious contest between good and evil at the end of the world. Or there could be some combination of catastrophes that would cause collapse.

we-could-disappear-meet-the-collapsologists

The scientific study of various theories of collapse and the culture of collapse is known as collapsology, and the people who believe that world civilization is on the brink of collapse are known as collapsologists.


Greetings, fellow collapsologists!

[REAL Green]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'T')he scientific study of various theories of collapse and the culture of collapse is known as collapsology, and the people who believe that world civilization is on the brink of collapse are known as collapsologists.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'G')lobal collapse due to peak didn't happen in 2000 or 2005 or 2010 as various models predicted. But some still think the world economy will collapse when we finally reach global peak oil sometime in the next 5-10 years.

Some scientists now think global warming will destroy advanced human civilization, or overpopulation, or the contradictions of capitalism, or nuclear war. Still others think there will be a great religious contest between good and evil at the end of the world. Or there could be some combination of catastrophes that would cause collapse.

we-could-disappear-meet-the-collapsologists

The scientific study of various theories of collapse and the culture of collapse is known as collapsology, and the people who believe that world civilization is on the brink of collapse are known as collapsologists.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')The scientific study of various theories of collapse and the culture of collapse is known as collapsology, and the people who believe that world civilization is on the brink of collapse are known as collapsologists.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '
')This way of thinking about it runs a little closer to what peak oil and some of the other doomer types would seem to more closely resemble.

[Ibon]

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Tell you what, when the death toll from starvation, exposure, dehydration, murder and disease exceeds population growth in that year, we'll have something to discuss.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '
')
Tell you what, when the death toll from starvation, exposure, dehydration, murder and disease exceeds population growth in that year, we'll have something to discuss.

[Newfie]

I don’t know that we, any of us, know how collapse will happen or when. There are a range of modalities on how and when this could happen. Obviously then we cant predict how it would roll out. Who could have predicted the last 9 months?

Given this range of uncertainty all we can do is to come up with our potential plans for what we personally guess is the most likely future scenario. Those plans will differ for each of us and some strategies will do better than others. Many of us will fail, hopefully some will succeed.

It’s good to have a wide range of options.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '
')Good thing your definition of what constituents collapse is so....non-collapsy.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '
')
Tell you what, when the death toll from starvation, exposure, dehydration, murder and disease exceeds population growth in that year, we'll have something to discuss.

[REAL Green]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'a')nd something to celebrate.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'I') don’t know that we, any of us, know how collapse will happen or when.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('REAL Green', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'a')nd something to celebrate.

[REAL Green]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'S')ome might call it celebrating balance or healing.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('REAL Green', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'S')ome might call it celebrating balance or healing.

[REAL Green]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', 'Y')ou really figure the current rate of sea level rise, temperature change and irritated lower classes are going to cause anything remotely resembling a net population decrease soon?

[ralfy]

The accurate term is "realist".

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', 'p')eak oil was a crock

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('REAL Green', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'S')ome might call it celebrating balance or healing.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')
Some might call it celebrating balance or healing.