What’s the Significance? - Appoquinimink High School

1988: The Collapse of Complex Societies, Joseph Tainter. 2004: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond. Over the past 10,000 years ~25 complex civilizations have gone through a cycle of birth ( growth ( decay, or in Toynbee's words, challenge ( response ( collapse. Western Civilization is in the early stages of collapse ... ................
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