Book review: Another End of the World is Possible

Last year I read How Everything can Collapse, a book by two French ‘collapsologists’ who wanted to have a grown up conversation about the possibility of social collapse. Hollywood cliches and visions of apocalypse have made the idea into something either terrifying or implausible, and it doesn’t get enough attention. As far as they are concerned, a slow decline of industrial civilisation is practically inevitable. It could be accelerated by things like – you know, a global pandemic.

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