{"id":1266,"date":"2009-07-24T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2009-07-24T10:48:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T16:48:28","slug":"the-complexity-of-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"The Complexity of Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/contact-5/">https://theroyalstagproperties.com/contact-5/</a> There&#8217;s a fascinating, informative <a href=\"http:\/\/europe.theoildrum.com\/node\/5528#comments_top\" target=\"_blank\">discussion thread<\/a> on the dynamics of societal collapse over at The Oil Drum, prompted by a very readable 10,000 word essay on the fall of the Roman empire, cleverly entitled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/europe.theoildrum.com\/node\/5528\" target=\"_blank\">Peak Civilization<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://blackhillsballoons.com/experience/"></a> This is really complicated stuff that the news media utterly fails to convey, preferring instead to focus on single-cause &#8220;forcings,&#8221; be it drought, climate change, overpopulation, or overexploitation of natural resources. I&#8217;m susceptible to this myself with respect to drought.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/team/">https://dentalprovidence.com/team/</a> Of course, the media takes its cue from scholars such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/index.html?curid=1378709\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Diamond<\/a>, whose one-size-fits all thesis is pretty well <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/2009\/04\/13\/beware-of-cautionary-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\">deconstructed<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Tainter\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Tainter<\/a>. Fans of Tainter will be heartened to know that his work is intelligently discussed (as far as I can tell) at the aforementioned essay and comment thread on The Oil Drum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://andiroberts.com/leadership-questions/"></a> There&#8217;s a fascinating, informative discussion thread on the dynamics of societal collapse over at The Oil Drum, prompted by a very readable 10,000 word essay on the fall of the Roman empire, cleverly entitled, &#8220;Peak Civilization.&#8221; This is really complicated stuff that the news media utterly fails to convey, preferring instead to focus on single-cause&#8230;<span> <a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/facweek/"></a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=1266\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2572,2783],"tags":[871,1224,1248],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse","category-jared-diamond","tag-collapse","tag-jared-diamond","tag-joseph-tainter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}