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Collapse of Complex Societies

May 14, 20132012, Conflict, History, National Security, Policy, Systems


The collapse of complex societies of the past can inform the present on the risks of collapse. Dr. Joseph Tainter, author of the book The Collapse of Complex societies, and featured in Leonardo Dicaprio’s film The Eleventh Hour, details the factors that led to the collapse of past civilizations including the Roman Empire.

2010 International Conference on Sustainability: Energy, Economy, and Environment organized by Local Future nonprofit and directed by Aaron Wissner. http://localfuture.org

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Although it scares a lot of people to having to accept it, everything can be explained in and by physics theory. More complexity is the same as more disorder. I’ll explain. More and more scientists today start to realize this and there have also been scientific reports published on it. Biology is chemistry, chemistry is physics, and society and culture and personal behaviour are heavily determined by genetic structures and the natural environment. Everything in culture, technology and biology together = The distribution of energy, meaning ‘processes describable in physics’ (wave patterns). As the ‘pressure’ on local energy effiency rises… Read more »
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