civilization collapse

site works best with firefox: https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/stele-vultures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stele_of_the_Vultures from page 21 of  Tracing the Earliest Recorded Concepts of International Law While the “Stele of the Vultures” does not disclose the full terms of the agreement reached between Eanatum, ruler of lagaš, and Enakale, ruler of umma, further details are given in the inscription of Enmetena, Eana- tum’s nephew, E1.9.5.1. According to that inscription, Eanatum, despite his victory over umma, left a strip of land over one km. deep, belonging to lagaš, along the border under umma’s control, According to Eanatum’s inscription on his “Stele of the Vultures” (E1.9.3.1), the ruler of umma was obligated under oath to “exploit the field of Ningirsu as a(n interest- bearing) loan.” According to Enmetena’s inscription, the amount of land umma could use was stipulated by the acreage needed to produce 1 guru (5184 hl.) of grain, at the current ...

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I am interested in collapse, when things fall apart. Sometimes collapse is a divorce of two formerly allied alphas battling for supremacy of their smoking rubble empire, while civilians die or if they have the means, flee with their lives. However other collapses are the result of bankruptcy. Alphas gamble resources to acquire competitive advantages or they have nothing left to lose. Sometimes there are no other choices but to gamble and risk losing. When you have nothing left to lose the best choice is to pay criminals to cross the Mediterranean and risk death or the US border and risk imprisonment. Civilizations require electricity. New coal generation is out.  Sometimes the only choice is to hire the company that built the 3 Mile Island disaster to build new power plants on your property. And they were first approved since the disaster. Utilities in the South Carolina and Georgia contracted Westinghouse to build 4 reactors designed to solve problems wi...

If the ice in Greenland and Antartica was as valuable as the damage losing it would cost - how valuable would that ice be? The 20 cities listed in "Future flood losses in major coastal cities" published by NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE - put the cost at $1 Trillion per year. So - any ideas on how I can short these cities?  Credit default swaps on global warming bonds? Wall Street - can you figure out how to make billions saving the planet from carbon? Be quick about it - Manhattan is almost under water... Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/science/global-warming-sea-level-carbon-dioxide-emissions.html?_r=0 By  JUSTIN GILLIS MARCH 22, 2016 Continue reading the main story Share This Page https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/4bixv4/scientists_warn_of_perilous_climate_shift_within/ The article cites the work of Dr James Hansen. He has prepared a video - watch the video presentation by Dr J...

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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