Civilizational collapse

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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.

Denkenberger, David & Joshua M. Pearce (2015) Feeding Everyone No Matter What: Managing Food Security after Global Catastrophe, Amsterdam: Academic Press.

Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2021) Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all, 80,000 Hours, November 19.

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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]

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    Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, fig. 5.2.

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    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]

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    Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, ch. fig. 5.2.

Turchin, Alexey & Brian Patrick Green (2019) Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes, Foresight, vol. 21, pp. 100–117.

In Toby Ord's typology, unrecoverable civilizational collapses constitute one of the three main types of existential catastrophe (Ord 2020).[1]

BibliographyFurther reading

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    Ord, Toby (2020) The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, ch. 2.

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