Sentences with phrase «societal collapse»

However, robust societies can adapt to extreme environmental changes and I am not convinced that climate change and pollution are likely to cause societal collapse.

If societal collapse is coming, we have the means to prevent it.

Your article on the dangers of super solar flares evokes the ultimate scenario of societal collapse in a world reliant...

«Survivalism,» or preparing for societal collapse, has become serious business among some of America's super rich, as illustrated by a recent article from The New Yorker which takes a look at the great lengths to which some of the richest from Wall Street to Silicon Valley have gone to protect themselves against cataclysmic civil unrest.

Survive the cyberspace gauntlet of the Project - K network and reawaken Eden to save a world on the verge of societal collapse in this action - packed arcade shooter.

There was no consensus, really, but the most popular answer was, «it will end with societal collapse.»

It was the formidable lead actress, Ellen Page (Juno), who first brought the Jean Hegland novel about societal collapse and a return to nature, to Rozema, who soon adapted... Read more»

Ability of one class of society to insulate themselves from the immediate effects of bad outcomes and pass it on to others is a core cause of long term societal collapse.

One drawback with living underground and defending yourself against societal collapse and potential contamination — it's claustrophobic.

Based on the novel of the same name by Jean Hegland, the story follows two sisters (played by out actresses Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood) surviving in the dense woods after a sudden societal collapse.

Ten years after some vague societal collapse (imaginatively referred to as «the collapse»), a man played by Guy Pearce (his name is apparently Eric, but I don't remember hearing it said during the film) roams the Outback in his car, his sole remaining possession.

Despite the work's dizzying surrealism, Castator has distilled a contemporary notion of reality, where societal collapse is suddenly plausible and an entire generation of young people, faced with an uncertain future, have retreated into humanity's most simplistic pursuit: unadulterated, hedonistic pleasure.

Societal collapses due to populations reaching «environmental limits» are not the norm (social failures and epidemic disease are; Butzer 2012.

They are part of a coupled dynamical system, and, as the authors show, this has dire potential consequences for societal collapse.

To demonstrate «critical slowing down» as an early warning signal of societal collapse, Downey and his fellow researchers examined five decades» worth of data on Neolithic European settlements published in archaeological journals.

This surprisingly touching tragicomedy revolves around love and friendship, and it's a gem of low - budget British cinema that ignores discussing the political issues that come with societal collapse, instead focussing on something more emotive and soulful.

It was the formidable lead actress, Ellen Page (Juno), who first brought the Jean Hegland novel about societal collapse and a return to nature, to Rozema, who soon adapted it for the screen.

For example, there have been repeated claims in recent weeks that North Korea could use one to cripple US power supplies, disrupt sensitive equipment and cause societal collapse.

Today, Venezuela is deemed to be the most vulnerable to societal collapse, though we assess an oil disruption there to be unlikely.

Despite the fact that there are an estimated 10 million LGBTQ - identified Americans and 62 % of Americans are in favor of marriage equality, LGBTQ people are not protected from workplace discrimination, face growing numbers of violent hate crimes, including harassment on public transportation, and have been called the cause for «societal collapse» by the sitting Vice President.

Unfortunately, trade wars, hyperinflation, WW3, societal collapse and environmental catastrophe will likely be coming to a theatre near you much sooner than technologies like solar will be able to save the day.

Ultimately, the kind of mass fail the GOP needs to retain its most fundamental brand as the Party of Normal People involves a societal collapse of the neoliberal or liberaltarian project.

In case of societal collapse, it must be maintainable with Bronze Age technology.

Splendidly orchestrated by second - unit director and stunt coordinator Simon Crane (who had a hand in the «Saving Private Ryan» battle scenes) and effectively edited by Roger Barton and Mark Chesse, these scenes of panic, pandemonium and societal collapse are effective and remarkably plausible.

Scarcity of resources from the environment (clean air, water, food, energy, land etc.) leads to violent conflicts within nations, and to war and terrorism between nations.13 Neomalthusians have argued that global environmental change leads to scarcities of resources that could lead to societal collapse.

Neomalthusians have argued that global environmental change leads to scarcities of resources that could lead to societal collapse.

Risk Urban Assault A beloved board game is about to get apocalyptic on PS4 with Ubisoft's Risk Urban Assault, which brings the classic strategy formula into a dark future of anarchy and societal collapse.

Dorothy will arrive by boat, a refugee from a world on the brink of ecological and societal collapse

At birth, she was given various names in preparation for societal collapse and variant potential futures, a Chinese name, an American name and an Indonesian name given by her parents, as well as a Catholic name by the local priest.

As the world teeters on the brink of catastrophic climate change and societal collapse, it is clear that those of us with the knowledge and capacity to resist have a responsibility to do so.