Sustainability and a continuum of human unsustainability
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simple diagram showing trend towards collapse
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spectrum from sustainable to collapse:
- sustainable
- unsustainable
- socio-ecological crisis
- socio-ecological collapse
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- Mar 2023
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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
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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
- Historical societies that have experience ecological collapse:
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