First published in French as Comment tout peut s’effondrer: Petit manuel de collapsologie à l’usage des générations présentes © Éditions du Seuil, 2015
This English edition © Polity Press, 2020

‘For The Children’ by Gary Snyder, from Turtle Island, copyright ©1974 by Gary Snyder. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4140-9

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Servigne, Pablo, author. | Stevens, Raphaël, author. | Brown, Andrew (Literary translator), translator.
Title: How everything can collapse : a manual for our times / Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens ; translated by Andrew Brown.
Other titles: Comment tout peut s’effondrer. English.
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, [2020] | “First published in French as Comment tout peut s’effondrer: Petit manuel de collapsologie à l’usage des générations présentes © Éditions du Seuil, 2015.” | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “A brave book that confronts directly the very real possibility that our civilization will collapse”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019045588 (print) | LCCN 2019045589 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509541386 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509541393 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509541409 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Regression (Civilization) | Crises (Philosophy) | Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on. | Global environmental change--Forecasting. | Forecasting.
Classification: LCC CB151 .S4713 2020 (print) | LCC CB151 (ebook) | DDC 909--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019045588
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019045589

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