Sentences with phrase «century ecological collapse»

First, a speaker points to the prospect of 21st century ecological collapse: sloshing waves, ravenous forest fires, fathers weeping as their crops succumb to a drought.

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In his concluding chapter, Snyder describes the Holocaust as an act of «ecological panic» -LSB-...] In the 21st century, he speculates, rapid and destructive climate change could lead to wholesale food shortages caused by desertification of huge areas of the planet, or alternatively drastic economic collapse and state bankruptcies.

It predicted that during the first half of the 21st century the ongoing growth in the human ecological footprint would stop - either through catastrophic «overshoot and collapse» - or through well - managed «peak and decline.»