civilization collapse

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 ...