Sentences with phrase «environmental collapse out»

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Spanning most of the Northern Hemisphere, we suggest that this cold phase be considered as an additional environmental factor contributing to the establishment of the Justinian plague7, 8, transformation of the eastern Roman Empire and collapse of the Sasanian Empire1, 2,5, movements out of the Asian steppe and Arabian Peninsula8, 11,12, spread of Slavic - speaking peoples9, 10 and political upheavals in China13.

Gordon Cheung is a contemporary artist whose work captures the mood of the global collapse of civilization — or a dystopian, prophetic vision of it — where moral, economic and environmental crises have spun out of control.

Two remarkable books that came out this year — Austerity Ecology & the Collapse Porn Addicts by Leigh Phillips and The End of Doom by Ronald Bailey — each makes the case that growth, technology, and accelerated modernization can solve the twin global problems of poverty and environmental devastation.

The drumbeat coming out of the environmental community is that if things to do not change, civilization is likely to collapse — that's hard to deal with.