millenia worth of robust agricultural technology has probably been lost in the last hundred years bright side to help you sleep at night if we get that far down youll probably be dead anyway
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Metastable states are tricky, tricky bastards.
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If you want to read a "dang, we nearly went all the way off the rails" near-apocalypse story, John Ringo's (Yes, that John Ringo) "The Last Centurion" is fun. Unrelentingly political, as his works tend to be, but the underlying story is a mile-a-minute testosterone romp.
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"The Collapse of Complex Civilizations"
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Complex, or merely complicated?
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This is an argument for keeping "primitive" civilizations around to survive after the party's over.
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the sentinalese will rule long after we disappear
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Robustness and efficiency are inherent inverse engineering tradeoffs, and modern society is 1-fault tolerant.
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speaking of collapse
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