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  1. Mar 2023
    1. Sustainability and a continuum of human unsustainability
      • simple diagram showing trend towards collapse

      • spectrum from sustainable to collapse:

        • sustainable
        • unsustainable
        • socio-ecological crisis
        • socio-ecological collapse
    2. human systems may have expanded beyond their ability to absorb energy and materials from the environment, and these resource constraints interacted with socio-political conflict to generate socio-ecological collapse.
      • key observation
    3. Civilizations that may have experienced socio-ecological collapse in whole or part due to their over-extraction of resources include
      • Historical societies that have experience ecological collapse:
        • Mayan
        • Roman
        • Greek
        • Easter Islands
        • Pitcairn Islands
        • Norse colony in Greenland
        • Cahokia in American Midwest
        • Anasazi