civilization collapse

Avis car rental company Wizard booking software introduced in 1972 IBM Mainframe SNA Every month on a Saturday, the entire system goes down Everywhere From 12am to 6am all orders are entered by hand while the system is offline for maintenance Of course, staff call in sick

Live forever Human City Civilization Finding perfect equilibrium for eternal city breaks the Plan Cities ARE designed to fall Civilizations ARE destined to fail as is everything else according the law of declining marginal returns to want things otherwise is infantile and monstrous

It takes me 44 years to wake up I discover I am on train That went over a cliff 20 years ago And will crash in another 20 years I have barely Learned to speak To speak I tell a story A story about executioners They hunt criminals and cut off their heads They use magic to get the head to talk after decapitation to give them peace When I was born Global warming had been set in motion The anthropocene already begun And the tools and infrastructure to know

it all does  slip away in the end that's what the scientists say most of us take a little bit more than we are allowed - because he did or she did, i deserve it, i need it or i want it only a very small number of us take much much more than we are allowed - because i can, no one will stop me, it's there, if i don't then you will and that is how you from a lot to almost none from trees to fish from oil to coal from dodos to carrier pigeons from woolly mammoth to giant sloth we all took more that's what the scientists say when we are young it is hard to take anything maybe we take nothing now we are older and our children are almost out of the house it's not so hard to take a little for our suffering, for the hard times when we were younger, for the long hours we were i am old now nothing works like it is supposed to just put it back the way it was - i don't care what it costs it's hard NOT to take a little for the drugs, the ...

We haven't evolved that way Eat it all and move It's always worked well enough  What's the incentive to leaving it? The next guy always takes it

You will inherit nothing and an asteroid strikes in 80 years. Or you inherit a bullet to the head. Pick one.

Would you like to do something to stop the collapse of civilization? Well go ahead but nothing you do will make any difference. What we can do is soften the blow. Eventually we will run out of resources to exploit. Liquid fossil fuels are so depleted that we need to drill five thousand feet into the ocean, and another thirteen thousand feet into the ocean. We need to boil sand to extract oil. Marine habitats are collapsing. And topsoils are eroding. Go ahead and buy nothing for a week if you like, think locally and act globally, or stop eating meat if you like, but on the scale of things it won't make a difference. What might make a soften the blow is not having any children or dying earlier that might make a difference. Reducing the number of humans on the planet is the single best way to conserve resources. Reducing the number of North Americans is the most effective. If you still think you can do something about the collapse of civili...