The first anchor, closer to the bottom of the tel and more distant in time, was a vast, wrecked city swept away by a regionwide collapse of society at the end of the Bronze Age, in the 12th century B.C.. (discovermagazine.com)
In Diamond's «Collapse», climate change is one of the five factors which he says relevant for collapses of societies, and it is really important in some of the cases he documents and not important in others. (realclimate.org)
But when yet another bad guy rhapsodizes about the collapse of society and it sounds like a presidential campaign rally, it's hard to not be repulsed. (businessinsider.com)