[Collection Anthropocène (Seuil 01] • How Everything Can Collapse by Servigne, Pablo -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Front Matter Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: We’ll Definitely Need to Tackle the Subject One of These Days . . .

Collapse? The birth of ‘collapsology’ Beware, this is a sensitive subject! Notes

Part I The Harbingers of Collapse

1 The Accelerating Vehicle

A world of exponentials Total acceleration Where do the limits lie? Notes

2 When the Engine Dies (Limits that Cannot be Crossed)

At the top of the peak, does energy starts to fall? At the top of the peak, there is a wall! And before the wall … a precipice Notes

3 Leaving the Road (Boundaries that Can be Crossed)

Global heating and cold sweats Who will kill the last animal on the planet? The other boundaries of the planet What happens when we cross different Rubicons? Notes

4 Is the Steering Locked?

How a system becomes locked in The problem of complexity Notes

5 Trapped in an Ever More Fragile Vehicle

Finance: feet of clay Supply chains on the razor’s edge Infrastructures at their last gasp What will be the spark? Notes

Summary of Part I

An all-too-clear picture Notes

Part II So, When’s It Going to Happen:?

6 The Difficulties of Being a Futurologist

From risk assessment to intuition The paradoxes of collapse Notes

7 Can We Detect Warning Signs?

The ‘noise’ of a system about to collapse There will always be uncertainty Notes

8 What Do the Mathematical Models Say?

An original model: HANDY A robust model: World3 Notes

Part III Collapsology

9 A Mosaic to Explore

What are we talking about exactly? What do past civilizations tell us … ? How far are we sinking . . . ? … up to our necks? Notes

10 And Where Do Human Beings Fit into All This?

Conclusion: Hunger is Only the Beginning

Towards a general and applied collapsology The ‘hangover’ generation Other ways of partying Notes

‘For the Children’

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