11 Reasons Our Civilization Will Soon Collapse

For most people its just 'life as usual' similar to business as usual. My hypothesis here is that many people can't bare to even imagine how they could cope should any event shocking to them occur.

They refuse to believe and will also deny because something appears to be simply more than they can handle mentally and emotionally.

Lets hope that our Gain of Function experts make a new and better virus and save the planet.

so what is the solution

I agree with your 11th collapse reason but even if 500 died that hospital births 100 babies a day in a country that currently can not feed itself withut UN supplied food wihich currently is straining to provide food for all the third world countries that will shortly be on the verge of famine from population overshoot ! The quote you gave on ww4 came from Albert Einstein .When I was born there was only two billion to feed ,now almost eight billion and still growing ! I was political chair of florida Sierra Club 30 years ago when we tried to advocate Population Control and we found out quickly that was an untouchable subject with ALL the religious groups as we had memberships canceled !

Plastic is only 3-4% of the fossils use. And it is not just burned. And with some willing it can be recycled. And green energy needs some fossils energy first to setup the construction but then it is very long lasting. Anyway using individual zransportion is a waste of resources. So we won't need one car per everyone, we need mass transportation systems, public traffic. That could save a lot.

Starvartion: eating animals is seven times more consuming resources - fossils and water and land - as living vegan. And it emitts therefore a tremendous amount of climate harmful gases.

I would say climate activists are clear with that we need to spare the resources. Getting vegan, wearing clothes till a real end and repair it, saving energy by using public transportation and so on. I wonder why that sentence is in that article. May be it is meant people who believe there must be done something about but still think everything can go on as it is.

Carrying capacity...read Garrett Hardin essays

My kitten's name is captain baby. When he's not searching for booty, he's playing with string. And when he's done searching for string, he's going back to the high seas because he's pirate baby.

I think the subsequent evidence was that bomb didn't hit the main hospital but an area near it so you jumped the gun on this one..

The MAIN reason for our civilization's collapse will be that we have delegated the vision and competencies to politicians who don't give a damn, unless its their EGO or BANK ACCOUNT. People are not allowed to live, we are living in a "matrix". Humans would do just FINE at the market garden level. We did for 10,000 years before it got funky in about 500 BC

Damn that was depressing. Never knew topsoil was such an issue and that we are in such dire straits wrt to soil mineral content. Thanks for the content though, it is needed.

JDAMs create a massive crater 50ft across. the hospital target site has no crater, but appears badly scorched/burned, what you would expect to find after a large fuel explosion.
Modern militaries wouldn't use a massive device like a JDAM to kill soft targets like people in an open area. JDAMs are for hard targets, concrete bunkers type targets
love your work but prefer your professionally informed opinions

But there are some negative feedbacks - shortages push up prices by the law of supply and demand
though at a cost of reduced lifestyles, billions of people dying reduces population pressure - more so
if evenly distributed across rich and poor...

Paul,
Our assembled accumulations of interesting objects, may collapse as your place looks a bit like ours.
We save too much stuff to use to understand, how society is functioning.

There is only one way out. Like always we have to find more land for more people. We need to move into space and find new worlds. If we can not achieve that by 2100 we are all dead. At least 90%.of us. The planet can sustain may be 10 % of our current population.

Read the article.

Paul wanders off the beaten path and speculates on who's responsible for a bomb explosion in the Middle East. Did not know he was a military forensic detective.

Subscribed 10 mins ago. Unsubscribed after the first few minutes of this video. It was clear even at the time that nothing like 500 people were killed, and that hamas had fired the missile. A month later and thats confirmed. Ive had enough of anti-Israel rubbish without it now infecting climate videos.

So for safeguarding human civilization we need a real revolution and the global planned economy for relocating resources to meet essential needs for people around the world.
But environmental activists seem hardly ever study history and don’t have any idea how to actually change everything.
Capitalism killed us

Yes l agree paul does make you feel good l think there should be more of him l love his positive attitude

Oil is not fossil-based; we would have run it dry a long time ago. Gas here in Delaware dropped below $3/gal recently; we're in a glut and they can barely give it away. It's obvious that it's abiogenic/abiotic, and society is not going to collapse given its abundance. As oil is generated from the Earth's mantle, we're literally sitting on an ocean of the stuff.

I disagree, what Dr. Guy McPherson is saying is that once the basic Human Civilization breaks down, all the environmental contanimnants that are stored in all the Industrial Remnants (factories and such) including Nuclear Power stations, will eventually be released causing a massive contamination of Earth for all living things.

I’m not sure I necessarily agree with the addition of the 11th reason. We’ve always had war. Even in the nuclear age we’ve been doing quite well for many decades now. This is not the most likely thing to Jill us

Excellent overview! It begs the question of why the collapse of human society (or extinction for that matter) would be a bad thing. The getting there is no fun, that’s true. The best thing anyone could,possibly do is avoid having offspring. How cruel to deliberately subject new life to this! Besides, if you’re never born you miss out on nothing and never suffer one iota. Clearly it’s better to never be born. We all die regardless, always have, always will.

self interest produces incoherence
-David Bohm

Civilization is a death-denying exercise. Death is a fundamental law of the Universe that can only be violated for so long as evidenced by the fact that all civilizations collapse at some point.

about time. There has been NO net gain to this planet or nature, mankind-isnt, and the best he can do is lay down his bones as fertiliser. I for one don't mind. Humans take themselves too seriously given the fact that most of what they do is utter utter nonsense dressed up as a kitten in a pink dress. Yep, time for a reset, let it roll.

The inability to comprehend the looming problems reminds me of diabetes. I am diabetic. The real problem of diabetes is it is a disease without pain, at least it is until it is far too late.

Stick to what you know!

Correction: Beach sand can’t be used in construction due to its salt content. Construction sand is either river sand or crushed rock.

There’s an interesting dynamic however to driving an electric car. Because it has a limited range, it vastly changes your behavior. You spend a lot more time considering how little you could drive in order to accomplish your goals. Maybe that is less so with the newer electric cars, which have longer range.

Iceland, Greece and Easter Island—all collapsed due to overshoot. Iceland probably cattle and sheep, Greece was goats, and Easter Island was all resources at once.

brother, did you just do a read-along of the article?

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Still doesn’t care about our comments. XXX cetera. When are you going to get it right? Et. Et. Et.

So money.

Unfortunately the governments needs to take extreme measures like restrict the use of private cars in cities. We as smart species need to understand that we cannot live at the same standards.
Because in my opinion the majority of oil consumed is because of travelling so much in our private cars especially in cities. Oil is a part also of our medicine so yes we cannot STOP OIL but we can stop consuming it for unnecessary activities.

choose one

There is ONE reason for our demise. Humans cannot handle power. Money, position, physical strength, politics, etc. It seems inevitable that any form of power, given, tolerated, or sought, WILL corrupt.
The tragedy is, all the life forms we will take with us.

Young man, go mine astroids..

Thanos told us before you ever did. This universe is finite, its resources, finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist.

Nice smiling face thumbnail for such an apocalyptic subject.

Lots of sand in Southern Alberta. Lots of Oil and Natural Gas in Alberta. Lots of wheat and Maize in southern Alberta. Lots of space in Southern Alberta. Lots of Wind and Solar Energy potential in Alberta. Lot's of Cement in Alberta. No threat to Sea Level Rise in Alberta. Scarcity of Water though, however we only have a population of less than 4 million people. What I missed can still kill us off... Additionally?

So, Humans have to switch to Renewables and 7 out of 8 people have to go, i.e. die and not be replaced whether we like it or not. You and I are probably one of the 7.

Being now 65, and growing up in post WW2 60s Britain, I still find it disturbing that we junked perfectly good transport systems that carried people and goods thousands of miles across continents and between countries, and even locally. Now I’m living in the middle of America where, in the deepest mists of time, the 1970s, there were still passenger and goods trains criss-crossing the country. Yes they were diesel-electrics, but they could have been electrified - and I don’t mean battery-electric. In 60s/70s Britain, ordinary working people - those people who make the structures of civilisation, took the bus or bicycled, or walked to work. Most didn’t have more than a twenty-minute commute - not may worked more than two hours away from their homes.
On topsoil and fertiliser use - we learned in Primary School to rotate crops, unlike the practise today of corn upon corn, year after year, with the dirt pumped full of anhydrous ammonia and dredged with petroleum-based fertiliser. No-till has saved a bit of dirt from blowing away, but it’s not mandatory. Excessive use of fertilisers and manure runoff has poisoned the rivers we get our drinking water from, and now we can’t even allow our dogs or children to paddle in any waterways, ponds or lakes.Rooting up trees and hedges, and planting right up to the ditches to plant corn and soybeans for not-for-human-consumption animal feed and gasoline/diesel additives doesn’t directly make more food for people.
…and nothing’s going to change. Oh well, oh hell.

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