cross-posted from: https://collapse.cat/post/767
… In a system which depends upon growth just to exist, anything which causes the system to falter – like supply shortages, fossil fuel depletion or collapsing supply chains – will bring forward the day of reckoning.
And where supply chains collapse at the speed of a slow container ship, the banking and financial superstructure will be blown apart at the speed of a photon in a fibre optic cable.
This is the place for discussing the potential collapse of modern civilization and the environment.
Collapse, in this context, refers to the significant loss of an established level or complexity towards a much simpler state. It can occur differently within many areas, orderly or chaotically, and be willing or unwilling. It does not necessarily imply human extinction or a singular, global event. Although, the longer the duration, the more it resembles a ‘decline’ instead of collapse.
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