Demystifying Collapse

One of the biggest misconceptions about collapse is that it only concerns the future or present, when in fact, human history has been defined as much by its periods of growth as it has by a long series of frequent, spectacular, collapse events. Whilst the symptoms of collapse may be currently culminating into their global, systemic manifestations, it has taken countless failed societies, ecological catastrophes and technological and economic bubbles to get here. Collapse is not something that happens to a civilisation. It is an entrenched quality of civilisation itself, and part of its lifecycle. The process of systemic collapse we are currently experiencing was put into motion thousands of years ago, when early human societies set the foundations for a growth-driven, anthropocentric culture.