Movement collapse

Movement collapse is the process that causes social or intellectual movements to become extinct or otherwise destroys their potential.

Further reading

Aird, Michael (2020) Collection of EA analyses of how social social movements rise, fall, can be influential, etc., Effective Altruism Forum, March 26.
Many additional resources on this topic or related topics.

Baron, Rebecca (2019) Movement collapse scenarios, Effective Altruism Forum, August 27.

Sempere, Nuño (2019) Why do social movements fail: two concrete examples, Effective Altruism Forum, October 4.

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building effective altruism | movement resilience | social and intellectual movements | value drift | value of movement growth