Collapse, resilience, and transformation in complex societies : modeling trends and understanding diversity / Ronald K. Faulseit -- Why collapse is so difficult to understand / Joseph A. Tainter -- ...

Papers presented at a symposium held during the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Milwaukee, April 2003. From collapse to regeneration / Glenn M. Schwartz -- The demise and ...

Human history is littered with expired civilizations, and scholars and archaeologists have made a determined effort to understand why and how civilizations collapse. They've found that symptoms like a ...

Historian Arnold Toynbee once observed, “Great civilizations are not murdered; they take their own lives.” More often than not, societies unravel from within—through a slow accumulation of political, ...

Canada is, by nearly any measure, a large, advanced, prosperous nation. A founding member of the G7, Canada is one of the world’s most “advanced economies,” ranking fourth in the Organization for ...

This story is part of the Grist series Doom/Mood exploring what the rise of doomerism means for our personal lives and the prospect of climate action more broadly. Jem Bendell had postponed his ...