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A civilizational collapse (sometimes called a social collapse or a societal collapse) is a drastic decrease in human population size,size or in political, economic or social complexity,complexity across essentially the entire world, for an extended period of time. Civilizational resilience is humanity's capacity to resist, or recover from, civilizational collapse.
A civilizational collapse (sometimes referred to ascalled a social collapse or a societal collapse) is a drastic decrease in human population size, or in political, economic or social complexity, across essentially the entire world, for an extended period of time. Civilizational resilience is humanity's capacity to resist, or recover from, civilizational collapse.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2021) Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all, 80,000 Hours, November 19.
80,000 Hours rates civilizational resilience a "potential highest priority area": an issue that, if more thoroughly examined, could rank as a top global challenge.[2]
Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, fig. 5.2.
80,000 Hours (2022) Our current list of pressing world problems, 80,000 Hours.
In Toby Ord's typology, unrecoverable civilizational collapses constitutecollapse constitutes one of the three main types of existential catastrophe.[1]
Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, ch. fig. 5.2.
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In Toby Ord's typology, unrecoverable civilizational collapses constitute one of the three main types of existential catastrophe (Ord 2020).[1]
Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, ch. 2.
Wiblin, Robert, Luisa Rodriguez & Keiran Harris (2022) Lewis Dartnell on getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world