Sentences with phrase «civilization collapsed»

The best way to answer this question is to figure out what evidence we'd leave behind if human civilization collapsed at its current stage of development.

When the situation in the Dark Zone escalated, as the outbreak spiraled out of control and all semblance of civilization collapsed, the Joint Task Force was forced to withdraw from the area, leaving behind important tactical terminals; SHD tech data relays loaded with operational information.

Within two weeks civilization collapsed, wiping out power sources, government and infrastructure.

Scientists thought a prolonged drop in hurricane activity helped push the region into drought from 800 to 950 A.D., when the Mayan civilization collapsed, but recent research shows that might not be the case.

Later, the city was conquered by the Itza Mayan tribe who migrated to Yucatan when the Mayan civilization collapsed at the end of the Classic Period around 1000 AD.

Thereafter, for reasons not yet fully known, the civilization collapsed and many of the people migrated.

I never would have guessed that matches and lighters would be among the things I'd miss the most if civilization collapsed

The Mystery of Easter Island New findings rekindle old debates about when the first people arrived and why their civilization collapsed Easter, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described

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In Greece, the sophisticated Mycenaean civilization collapsed around the time of the Tollense battle; in Egypt, pharaohs boasted of besting the «Sea People,» marauders from far - off lands who toppled the neighboring Hittites.

Here's what happens in the movie: Zombies attack, human civilization collapses, and Brad Pitt has to figure out what to do about it, pretty much single - handed.

In the face of an enemy completely immune to conventional weapons, urban civilization collapses, and each day humanity is driven further and further toward extinction.

While the great Mayan civilizations collapsed mysteriously over 1000 years ago, today many Mayan people still live throughout Belize, Yucatan and Guatemala.

Humanity falls back to darkness and civilization collapses.

Drawing on everything from 18th - century rococo to 1970s punk, her recent work shows images of people surviving after civilizations collapse, though the nature of the cause is unclear, whether from climate change, social injustice or financial meltdown.

I guess that explains why many previous civilizations collapsed when their local climate changed as well, and their local sources of food and water became unreliable.

Furthermore, there are synergies in the collapse of individual sectors, most notably in linkages between ecological collapse and civilization collapse.

... In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse?

Executive Summary Over the next 2000 years, coastal flooding, mass extinctions, and civilization collapse will emerge as the key sectors of equatorial economic activity.

Which is a great pity, because economic analysis of past civilization collapses indicates that a two - century lookahead is vital to effective leadership of any civilization.

Farnish has predicted that «people will die in huge numbers when civilization collapses,» something that he believes is imminent in the next few decades.

So all these other discussions of «what we can or should do» are just a charade, moving the deck chairs on the Titanic, and they will go on and on and on like a Celine Dion song until planetary habitability declines so badly that civilization collapses anyway from our inactions and repeated mistakes.

Business and pollution as usual offers half - measures and promises action just in time, if we are lucky, before the planet warms sufficiently to cause massive crop failure as industrial civilization collapses amidst flood, drought, famine, war, mass migration of the desperate, epidemics.

On one extreme you have the misanthropists utilizing the enhanced greenhouse hypothesis in an attempt to implement the Maurice Strong - expressed: «Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialised civilizations collapse?

Examples of science fiction based on devastating climate change are Ready (1998), well - meaning but scarcely noticed; Turner (1989), a story of civilization collapsing under the pressures of war and economic forces as well as global warming (noted fairly widely for its literary quality); and, by two of the field's major authors, Silverberg (1994)(little noted), emphasizing the greed, stupidity and ambitions that were bringing vast destruction through ozone as well as global warming, and Sterling (1995), where colossal storms mingle with stormy political conspiracy.

When agriculture collapses, civilization collapses.

If there are no groceries, nobody goes to work, so civilization collapses.

Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse?

Civilization collapse has a survival rate of 1 in ten thousand OR LESS.

The major difference would be that the CO2 heat load accumulates, e.g. once injected imposes a significant forcing over centuries, while the power dissipation heat load goes away as soon as civilization collapses from heat stroke or a bit longer as the satellites fall out of the sky on a new generation of hunter gatherers.

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In the short term, Downey said that researchers should look for critical slowing down before more recent major collapses, like the Mayan and Roman civilizations.

I wrote my thesis on the philosophy of history with the central argument that Industrial Civilization would collapse and either be replaced by a new emergent socio - economic revolution an order of magnitude higher than industrialization and agriculture combined, or we would go back to the stone age or extinct.

These are lines we can not cross if we want to hold on to a functioning human civilization — not a collection of failed states, desperate environmental refugees and collapsing food systems.

I believe, truly believe, that sometime in the future, as civilization continues to collapse into an intellectual and moral vacuum, other voices will take up Fray Luis» refrain: «As we were saying yesterday.»

Being a good Stoic, she understands the impermanence of all things, the sure collapse of civilization, and the final return of nature to its original chaos.

When these atrophy, then civilization will inevitably collapse.

An article by Ross L. Finney offered a dire prediction in early 1924: «Unless we shift our weight Western civilization will enjoy an illusive prosperity and greatness for a time, but will then stagger, stumble and eventually collapse» (January 24, 1924).

«There are some Christians,» he wrote, «who feel a certain satisfaction» a kind of Schadenfreude» at the sudden collapse of the liberal idealism of the nineteenth century and the loss of hope in the future of modern civilization.

A critical point is reached in a civilization / empire where too much diversity leads to the collapse of society.

The fecklessness of this, especially coming from the overweight and unattractive Connolly, Malcolm took to be characteristic of a civilization in complete collapse, which he supposed his to be, however eagerly he kept on the lookout for signs to the contrary.

At this peak the civilization suddenly collapsed.

We may not have seen the collapse of whole civilizations in our day in this way, but we have seen the disappearance of large areas of formerly habitable earth.

While the sixties were a time of exhilaration for the young, we should not forget that one of the tenets of the counterculture of that era was also the coming collapse of civilization.

At the close of his essay Gene Logsdon asks, «Could humankind for once end an old cycle and begin a new one based on a pastoral food system without an intervening decline or collapse of the economy and civilization?»

This has happened again and again in history; often it has been called «the collapse of a civilization.

In Nietzsche's vision, the nihilism in which Western civilization ends was to be at once a collapse into decadence and the fulfillment of an absolute freedom.

If there is justice in the universe, Stanton and Judge Hoskins will meet in the Home Run Derby final, and they'll be responsible for folktales that are told after the collapse of civilization.

«A doomer is one who believes that problems of ecological overshoot, such as over population, climate change, pollution and especially peak oil, will cause the collapse of industrial civilization, and, a significant human population die - off.

The Second World War changed all this; the imminent collapse of civilization tended to break down social barriers, and sex education became more about avoiding syphilis, gonorrhoea and the like.

From the origin of the universe (big bang), to the origin of the moon (big collision), to the origin of lunar craters (meteor strikes), to the demise of the dinosaurs (asteroid impact), to the numerous sudden downfalls of civilizations documented by Jared Diamond in his 2005 book Collapse, catastrophism is alive and well in mainstream science.