2/13/20

Cassandra's Legacy: Why do Societies Collapse? Diminishing Returns are a key Factor, a new Study Says

Why do civilizations collapse? It is a question that has been haunting the nebulous entity we call "The West" from the time when Edward Gibbon published his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," in 1776. The underlying question in Gibbon's massive study was 'are we heading for the same destiny as the Romans?' A question that generations of historians have tried to answer, so far without arriving to answer on which everyone would agree.   Suite sur le Blog de Ugo Bardi.

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