Is the collapse of civilization imminent?

Mega civilizations will crash and burn over the next 300 years. The last time we had what I learned as the "Alta Mira Climate Flip", was 1500 BC. Thirty Five hundred years ago. This was the time of the Exodus, and all the plagues on Egypt. Our planet's climates get all messed up in 3500 year long cycles. Spookier is that these flips come at the same time as the foretold 12th Planet's arrivals. Things get both warmer and wetter, and or cooler and drier, and in about three Centuries start evening back out.

Seven millenia ago, it went warmer, then 3500 years ago it flipped over to the cooler side. In the last 1000 years it's kind of mellowed out, but not for much longer. Of course a giant volcanic winter or comet strike really darkens the skies for maybe a decade. Egypt's Old Kingdom may well have gone down from one of these climate flips. The study site was a lost Roman City, near Alta Mira, Espana called Italia. Some of those buried statues are now in the Maria Theresa Gardens in Seville, Spain. She was the mother, and Holy Roman Empress, of Marie Antoinette. Emperor Nero's statue is a ringer for Zero Mostel, the late American Comic actor.

a reply to: carpooler

I think that the last real collapse was the Bronze age collapse , eleven hundred BC where the Sea Peoples tried to settle in Egypt by the Nile basin, at that time Greece had collapsed and most of the civilized trade routes for Tin and Copper had ceased. It looks like climate caused this and caused a lot of diverse people to take to the sea on raiding and looking for places to settle, most of the cities at that time seem to have ash layers due to diverse reasons as well as civil unrest. Then a couple of thousand years back, Tribes left the North and sacked Rome , they didn't really want Rome to fall but they needed new lands to settle. The main difference today is technology, if it does get colder food can still be grown in Greenhouses on industrial scales, take Holland about the size of Wales but the main exporter of food to the EEC.

a reply to: anonentity

There was also the theory of a collapse caused by a possible near miss or actual grace and partial strike by a comet or asteroid about a thousand or so years back and another that may be responsible for the period of instability leading up to and following the collapse of the roman empire though these are more likely to have been down to volcanism than actual comet or asteroid strikes - still they both happen and both can and on occasion do affect global climate with unpleasant affects on any society's that then suffer from resulting crop failures etc.

originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
a reply to: MichiganSwampBuck

The Great Depression lasted for over 10 years.

It started 1929 and reached its peak around 1933. So people saw it coming, but many thought the government would save them.

Much of what happened then, we can learn from, but too many are way too comfortable and complacent to wake up in time.

From the perspective of those living during the collapse, I suspect it is a slow motion event. It doesn't happen in one day or one week.

I think the process has begun, but have not a clue as to how long it will take.

I don't remember who said it, but it was something to the effect of "Revolution is always only two missed meals away."

Global civilization would take a little longer to collapse than two days, but if we got hit hard enough by an asteroid, that would certainly start the ball rolling. Imagine the Viggo Mortensen movie, "The Road" but with way fewer laughs.

Damnit! I had high hopes for this thread but (thanks Ricky!) it only took 5 replies to RUIN it by bringing up politics


/sigh

a reply to: Somekindofwizard



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a reply to: Blue Shift

Yes collapse is so slow we might not even notice it until we hit a tipping point. But we are probably well into the process, Probably before the GFC. But nothing lasts for ever not even systems. Countries blessed with resources, with rich fertile land have collapsed, their should be no reason for them to do this, until you look at the political system. The higher the levels of corruption, the higher the risk of failure. If resources are constantly being diverted to a countries elite families, This standard of living begins to become a right as the members of the elites mouths increase. To many Chiefs not enough Indians comes to mind.