Ugo Bardi: Societal Collapse, the Seneca Effect

Published On: January 6, 2019

Ugo Bardi, speaks at the 50th Anniversary Summit of the Club of Rome, October 2018.

“Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid.”

Toward a General Theory of Societal Collapse. A Biophysical Examination of Tainter s Model of the Diminishing Returns of Complexity – In this paper, we present a simple biophysical model which we link to the concept that societies collapse because of the diminishing returns of complexity proposed by Joseph Tainter. https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07056

Source https://www.facebook.com/clubofrome/videos/781049835559853 and https://50thclubofrome.com
Teaser image by Hubert Robert https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_Robert_-_Landscape_with_the_Ruins_of_the_Round_Temple,_with_a_Statue_of_Venus_and_a_Monument_to_Marcus_Aurelius.jpg
See also, Seneca the Younger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger

Tags: 2018, Civilization, Club of Rome, Collapse, Society, Ugo Bardi, University of Florence, Video(2023)

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