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 ...

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?

Cook the planet to death by burning all the fossil fuels That's a dumb way to die  Have as more children than the planet can support That's a dumb way to die Eat all the fish in the ocean till there's nothing left to eat That's a dumb way to die Pollute the ocean with plastics so seagulls starve because their bellies are full of plastic That's a dumb way to die Deplete the aquifers so that there is no water left to farm That's a dumb way to die Keep increasing atmospheric co2 levels to accelerate sea level rise That's a dumb way to die

Global warming Species extinction Ocean pollution 7 billion humans 3 cubic miles of oil consumed per year

100 more years of metals and then we will have to find alternatives or mine the heavens.