Jared Diamond has written extensively on the demise of many dozens of societies and past civilizations, yet there is no record of the collapse and demise of a global civilization. If the global social, political, and economic crises continue and the viral pandemic, environmental, geophysical, and meteorological cataclysms continue, we can anticipate that our global civilization today will soon join the numbers of past societies, nations, cultures, empires, and civilizations that have risen, crested, declined, collapsed and disintegrated. For those of us who remain, will we choose to rebuild what has collapsed or will we rebuild using new social, political, and economic designs of that will support social stability, social sustainability, and peace? And if those who remain choose to use self-sustaining designs, where will they get them? Not everyone is aware that our nations and civilization are now in the process of failing, and very few have thought it would be necessary to plan for recovery BEFORE the collapse is fully underway.
(See: Manifesto For Designing Self-Sustaining Democratic Societies)
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