civilization collapse

https://www.google.ca/search?q=solomon+islands+lumber+exports&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari Jared Diamond said in a Ted talk Solomon Islands have 1 year of timber left. See video  Jared Diamond: Why do societies collapse? I googled it. There's an article from uk global timber about china - see it here -  Reported exports of logs from the Solomon Islands compared with importing countries' declared imports of logs from the Solomon Islands Then there's the Chinese ebay site AliBabe where you can buy logs - click here to buy now before they are all gone!

http://www.learner.org/resources/series45.html?pop=yes&pid=581 China's Altar L?

In the beginning, I got this book "Surviving Progress" by Ronald Wright. Just the whole idea of civilization collapse was unbelievable to me. Then I started researching it, and I started gathering data, and looking more into it. I got more and more ideas about the scope of the problem from multiple sources. It wasn't just one source. It was all these different sources, from all these disciplines. All pointing in the same way. The sources weren't necessarily concerned with civilization collapse, but their results pointed that way. The first stage was acquaintance. Getting introduced to it. The second step was validation, and verification, and research. Confirmation. Then the third stage was depression, after realizing what would be lost. What it would mean for families. What it would mean for all the things. Also depression about what was being lost. Not just for humans, but for resources, and for plants and animals. That was the depression part. The next ...

Are the planet's fossil fuels shaping humans or are humans shaping the planet with fossil fuels? - Joshua Paul

Paul R. Ehrlich † ⇓  and  Anne H. Ehrlich - Author Affiliations Department of Biology , Stanford University,  Stanford, CA 94305 , USA e-mail:  pre@stanford.edu Environmental problems have contributed to numerous collapses of civilizations in the past. Now, for the first time, a global collapse appears likely. Overpopulation, overconsumption by the rich and poor choices of technologies are major drivers; dramatic cultural change provides the main hope of averting calamity. Article here

A glance at elite marriages show rich, famous and powerful men marrying women that are young enough to be their grand daughters. Sometimes these men are known bad boys. What does this have to do with civ collapse? Debt? Over population? Competition for resources? Food shortages? And generally spending more than you earn?