Increasing potential of societal collapse

[L.G.]

Physicists: 90% Chance of Human Society Collapsing Within Decades

https://www.ecowatch.com/human-societ...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...

[Robert]

There are some interesting discussions on science fiction and fantasy sites as to what a collapse would be like like after it collapsed. How long it would take, and what the initial casualties would be.

One of the issues is how far back would we fall. I am guessing something similar to the 1800s after all is said and done. Knowing about the existence of something makes it a lot easier to invent or bring back into use.

There would be a lot of stuff laying around that could be used to reinvent technology. Gunpowder fire arms still work that are over 100 years old. The secret of gunpowder has not been a secret for a long time.

There would be a lot less people so animal populations would make a comeback, providing the inhabitants a leg up, the same way they did the first time around, which has actually happened many, many times.

We have been whittling away at the tree population for 500 years now. That might stop for awhile, but the versatility of wood would probably continue to be a contributing factor to its failure to naturally replenish itself.

If Lady Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, had been allowed to run Babbidge's steam powered calculating machine company in 1840, we would have had computers capable of what we had in the 1960s in the 1840s. Her ideas are still A grade material in any computer science school. The men's ideas of the time would be in the D to F grade range. Lord Byron supported the Luddites, who were against all machines. Seems like human beings can never do anything in moderation.

[Jimmy]

No argument from me, L.G. I have been predicting the same thing. We ain't seen nothing yet. COVID-19 is a birthday party by comparison.

[L.G.]

As to how we are getting there:
Decline in US bird biodiversity related to neonicotinoids, study shows.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...

[Robert]

The portrait of Dorian Gray is a picture of the natural world, the body of Dorian Gray represents humanity. As we grow our physical world of glass, concrete, steel, tar, and electronics, the entire biodiversity of the world is rapidly shrinking.